Grateful Dead Listening Guidehttp://www.deadlistening.com/Helping new and old-comers navigate through listening choices in the sea of Grateful Dead shows available on and off line.ennoreply@blogger.com (icepetal)Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:25:50 PDTBlogger http://www.blogger.com167125Copyright 2009 Grateful Dead Listening GuideGrateful,Dead,Jerry,Garcia,Music,Psychedelic,Rock,BootlegsMusicicepetal@gmail.comwww.deadlistening.comwww.deadlistening.comnoGrateful,Dead,Jerry,Garcia,Music,Psychedelic,Rock,BootlegsGuided musical adventures highlighting peak moments throughout the history of Grateful Dead concert recordings.With so much Grateful Dead music out there, a person can benefit from a little help from time to time. Whether you are new to the Dead, or an old fan looking for something to listen to, the Grateful Dead Listening Guide is for you. As an audio accompaniment to the information found at www.deadlistening.com, the podcast series will take listeners on guided musical adventures highlighting peak moments throughout the history of Grateful Dead concert recordings. Not just serving up entire shows, episodes of the Grateful Dead Listening Guide Podcast Series will vary in theme, and focus in on particular songs or musical passages that showcase the Dead at their best. With commentary between musical selections aimed to add color with history, stories, and otherwise anecdotal information, the GDLG podcasts are like going over to your favorite deadhead friend's house to listen to some choice tapes that just arrived in the mail. So, come on over, pull up a chair, and enjoy the ride.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/GratefulDeadListeningGuidehttps://feedburner.google.com1970 June 4 - Fillmore Westhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/pJBJJw_-emk/1970-june-4-fillmore-west.html1970AUDsEarly '70'sIndooricepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:13:21 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-4694670774967176734<div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tfT_ps8E644/UTz_L1WWrcI/AAAAAAAABlw/z7-d-d3O_cg/s1600/1970-Winterland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="223" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tfT_ps8E644/UTz_L1WWrcI/AAAAAAAABlw/z7-d-d3O_cg/s400/1970-Winterland.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Grateful Dead<br />Thursday, June 4, 1970<br />Fillmore West - San Francisco, CA<br />Audience Recording</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NYIzunUP5O4/UT0A0hgOxhI/AAAAAAAABmA/xkhAowz4GyA/s1600/19700420_0397.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Few and far between are complete audience tapes of the Grateful Dead in 1970 which include the acoustic opening set, the New Riders of the Purple Sage middle set, and the electric Dead closing set. Fewer still are those that sound as good as any AUD tape could in that year. Here, however, is just such a tape.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br />The Dead left the Bay area at the end of April, 1970 and embarked on a six week, 17 show tour hitting mostly college campuses on the east coast, along with a night at the Fillmore East in New York and spending&nbsp; a couple days overseas in England. Despite the spotty completeness of recordings from this run, it’s an epic tour, giving us some of the very best shows of the year - the fabled and iconic May 2nd show at Harpur College easily springs to mind.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">On those audience tapes we do have from this run, there is no shortage of excited energy in the crowds, something we’ve come to call that “east coast vibe.” This is just the first thing thing that makes the tape from June 4th, 1970 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco an intoxicating experience - the vibe is decidedly “west coast” - the audience is unmistakably lower key than those at Dead shows out east. And that only scratches the surface of what makes the 06/04/70 AUD tape a fantastic listen.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zAbhasWh3SY/UTz_m6A5ntI/AAAAAAAABl8/OUqA14kjTrw/s1600/1970-Acoustic.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zAbhasWh3SY/UTz_m6A5ntI/AAAAAAAABl8/OUqA14kjTrw/s200/1970-Acoustic.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span>If you’ve listened to a lot of 1969-1971 Grateful Dead, you will quickly pick up the feeling of the band being “at home” on this tape from the Fillmore West. No one is in a hurry. Nothing pushes the evening along. But it’s more than that. There is also the sound of the band in this hall.&nbsp; I’m not just talking about the amazing tape recording - speaking of... my goodness, uh... wow - I’m talking about a particular taste to the sound of the PA, the mic placement, the acoustic guitars, the vocals, the drums (especially cymbals). With Bear still not quite yet on his way to federal prison, he is as much present on this recording as the entire band. The sound here at the Fillmore West exudes a sense that he is truly in his element. The room sounds that good.&nbsp; Perhaps it was just the comfort of a known stomping ground and house equipment, but the sonic nature of space within this room is stunning.<br /><br />While those who need to find fault may point to the less than perfect levels and clarity of low-end on this tape, it’s hard to be disappointed with this listening experience. And again, as a 1970 AUD tape? Whoa. <br /><br /><i>Set One - Grateful Dead Acoustic: Monkey and the Engineer, Deep Elem Blues, Candyman, Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Friend of the Devil, Black Peter, Cumberland Blues, Wake Up Little Suzie, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Uncle John's Band<br /><br />Set Two - New Riders of the Purple Sage: Working Man's Blues, If You Hear Me When I'm Leaving, Whatcha Gonna Do, I Don't Know You, Portland Woman, Truck Drivin' Man, Superman, Louisiana Lady, All I Ever Wanted, Henry, Last Lonely Eagle, Fair Chance To Know, The Race is On, Mama Tried, Honky Tonk Women<br /><br />Set Three - Grateful Dead Electric: Casey Jones, Me and My Uncle, Hard to Handle, It's a Sin, China Cat Sunflower &gt; I Know You Rider, Attics of My Life, It's a Man's World, New, New Minglewood Blues, Good Lovin', St. Stephen &gt; Not Fade Away &gt; Midnight Hour, It's All Over Now Baby Blue</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"></span>The acoustic set is about as close to the Grateful Dead’s back porch as we are going to get.&nbsp; Relaxed, and with no expectations (save for a good deal of complaints over getting the monitors to work properly), the set displays a tremendous intimacy. There is a fragile honesty to the proceedings, without a hint of pretension anywhere. The guitars are warm, the vocals round. In Candyman, the drum and cymbal work are so well mixed, they seem to be perched on the listener’s shoulder.&nbsp; More than feeling like you are on stage with the band, it feels like the band is in your head. The song wraps with the band saving a complete vocal train wreck so well, you’re left thinking this was just some alternate way they decided to treat the very end of the tune tonight.<br /><br />Sublime acoustic Grateful Dead continues. Once David Nelson and Marmaduke from the Riders join them on stage at Cumberland, good goes to great. The closing Uncle John’s Band, again with those drums so well placed up in the mix, is gorgeous. We finally see the audience energy rise - ready for true lift off.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JORgAFzq6k0/UT0BfWPjM3I/AAAAAAAABmI/VkvYCvXB73U/s1600/19710321_0632.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></span>When the New Riders of the Purple Sage take the stage, to obviously state that things become more electric it an understatement. This band (with Jerry on pedal steel from inception through October, 1971 - you knew that already, right?) approaches psychedelia with ninja-like skills.&nbsp; You almost don’t catch it until you start listening just below the surface of this country rock five-piece.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JORgAFzq6k0/UT0BfWPjM3I/AAAAAAAABmI/VkvYCvXB73U/s1600/19710321_0632.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JORgAFzq6k0/UT0BfWPjM3I/AAAAAAAABmI/VkvYCvXB73U/s200/19710321_0632.jpg" width="160" /></a></span></span>Early Riders music shimmers with a taffy pulling goo. Drums, guitar and pedal steel are all continually appearing, receding and reappearing from a wash of rippling melodies. Mickey Hart (on drums until late November, 1970) is hell bent on being remembered as the most asynchronous country drummer of all time.&nbsp; That he manages to keep the music driving forward is quite a testament to his drumming chops, because he takes advantage of every opportunity to go after beats that are not on the one, two, three or four - as if he is scoring a game measured in such things. He is winning this game, and causing everything in the musical orbit to open into ellipses and other complicated mathematics (see Louisiana Lady - he scores into the bonus round on that tune). David Nelson’s guitar play twangs as if played by fourteen fingers, let alone four.&nbsp; And Garcia on steel... well, the guy knew how to work an instrument - even one he continually admitting to being woefully incapable of finding the time to master.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The Riders’ set is fantastic. In their own world of musical documentation, June 1970 is woefully under-represented (this tape marks one of only two June 1970 evenings we have), so catching this complete set in such breathtaking detail is a dream come true. Things continue to swirl and elevate as their set continues. Whatcha Gonna Do, and I Don’t Know You begin to peel back the veil of straightforward country rock completely, as the music drives in a cyclone of song. The evening is becoming more electric on all counts. The Riders are the glue, the transparent fully explored example of how a late 60’s psychedelic juggernaut like the Grateful Dead could so naturally release Working Man’s Dead and American Beauty here in 1970. Through the Riders, it all comes together. It all makes more sense.&nbsp; And then it all explodes into a carnival of colors when the electric Dead take the stage...<br /><br />Casey Jones is delivered in near perfect LP replication.&nbsp; The energy soars and the hi-stepping Grateful Dead march is in full swing. The audience recording brings all of this into intimate focus. It still feels like the entire band is exploding in the palm of your hand. This quality emanating from a 1970 AUD is not something typical, and it forces one to take pause and smile. This is really good.<br /><br />The set list is interesting for its lack of Dark Star or Other One, though perhaps understandable with a long weekend ahead filling out this stand. More interesting is finding a version of “It’s A Sin” showing up. We are missing the first hunk of the song, but still... we have no known previous record of this song being played in 1970 whatsoever. So, pretty cool.<br /><br />The China&gt;Rider (also clipped at the start) is ferocious. It has all the charging madness of a 1968 China Cat Sunflower, and Garcia’s guitar tone blazes with deafening, sun streaming power. The transition into I Know You Rider is nicely done, and the band keeps a quick clip moving which lends even more energy to the tune.<br /><br />The stand alone Attics of My Life is a treat, despite the overdriven vocals. It somehow seems sedate in comparison to the outright spiritual awakening that is communicated in the version a few weeks later on <a href="http://www.deadlistening.com/2008/04/1970-june-24-capitol-theatre.html" target="_blank">6/24/70</a>.</span><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBt3ncerna4/UT0FOo473II/AAAAAAAABmY/yEL7LCrl7r4/s1600/Light+Show+1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9Gyx9-FYc08/UT0Csec_JPI/AAAAAAAABmQ/UxkBJ8YpgxE/s1600/1970+05-06+pigpen.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9Gyx9-FYc08/UT0Csec_JPI/AAAAAAAABmQ/UxkBJ8YpgxE/s200/1970+05-06+pigpen.jpg" width="133" /></a>Then we come to It’s A Man’s World.&nbsp; One of only a dozen known versions, all occurring between April and September 1970, this song is full of sultry swagger. Pigpen howls and howls, with the band cooly chugging below. As Garcia starts working into his solos, everything jells. The band comes alive and casts serpentine phrases and rhythms over the crowd. The song flies with a transcendent “Eleven” vibe, like a jam pulled right out of 1969. Garcia’s notes fly on tiptoes leaving a trail of dancing sparkles. And a special nod to the boys’ backing vocals here - expertly delivered while kicking out such groovy underpinnings.<br /><br />Now the band seems to be hitting full stride.&nbsp; Minglewood bores into the chest, taking the giant sound of 1970 Dead directly back into this earliest of band standards. The solo crashes like a meteor on stage. Bobby screams, rips, roars and screams some more. <br /><br />Good Lovin’ picks up directly where Minglewood and It’s A Man’s World leave off. We are rocketing forward. The mid-song Drums is clipped, but we pick up just as the band gets back down to business. All six band members are moving in different direction, and manage to congeal and disperse over and over again.&nbsp; Garcia wails. His notes have become liquid fire, speeding through the sky. Everyone comes back together and concludes the song with knock out force. We are breathless. And then comes St. Stephen.<br /><br />Here the audience tape provides a glimpse into the sonic tidal wave of the Grateful Dead in a fashion not readily available in any other tape this reviewer can bring to memory. After the “lady finger” section of the song proves to be intensely personal - it is so within the head that the head expands to fill all space - the flash pot/gunshot that follows becomes an endgame for the senses. The music becomes enormous, even cataclysmic, as if towering forces are locked in battle. Galaxies collide, exploding in endless eruptions. Above it all, a cymbal swell begins to take form, certainly a mainstay portion of this tune. But this tape brings it into bone bleaching focus. The swell begins to level everything in its path, yet the music muscles its way even higher. Nothing is left of personal space. There is no room left.&nbsp; Here, we are lost to the music. We are gone. And the sound wall continues to roar. This one passage delivers the goods so completely, it starts to make sense why people would religiously follow the band from show to show for decades. You come out on the other side wondering, what just happened? Sensational.<br /><br />Into Not Fade Away we go. More blistering work from Garcia.&nbsp; It’s just a single verse, and the band tumbles into a jam that returns to St Stephen. Garcia is cartwheeling now, flinging plumes of fiery light into space. From here we move into Midnight Hour - only one of five known versions in 1970.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBt3ncerna4/UT0FOo473II/AAAAAAAABmY/yEL7LCrl7r4/s1600/Light+Show+1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBt3ncerna4/UT0FOo473II/AAAAAAAABmY/yEL7LCrl7r4/s1600/Light+Show+1.jpg" /></a>The song is another Pigpen swagger punctuated by the band’s crushing hand of power. Under a lazy Pigpen rap, the band begins to take things in other directions. A very Dancin’ In The Streets style jam ensues. Jerry finds his way into extremely pastoral spaces with his solo, juxtaposed against the strut of the music nicely. His solo is soon crooning and swooning, headed toward some astral plane. The band gets it, and we become utterly lost again.&nbsp; The muse of the band is singing New Potato Caboose, Caution, Dancin’ and anything else it feels like singing. Deep within this spectacular passage we hear the smallest hint from Bobby teasing back to China Cat. Before we fully confirm in our head that we just heard it, Jerry certainly did, and the band gives the theme full treatment before landing back in Midnight Hour on the back of some Garcia volume knob work.<br /><br />Baby Blue (one of just three known versions in 1970) is wickedly cut short on the AUD tape due, undoubtedly, to a lack of blank tape after such a long evening. But I’m not going to scold our taper, Gerry Olsen, in any way. This tape is pure gold. We are blessed completely in our opportunity to hear it, and the window into 1970 Grateful Dead it provides for our ears. Enjoy!<br /><br /><a href="http://db.etree.org/shn/123798" target="_blank">06/04/70 etree source info</a><br /><a href="http://archive.org/details/gd1970-06-04.123798.gdnrps.sonyTC124.olsen.droncit.flat.flac16" target="_blank">06/04/70 AUD download</a></span></div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/rUPj5O-4Q50" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>11noListening Session 011: More interwoven adventures through the wonderland of Grateful Dead live music. &nbsp;www.deadlistening.comListening Session 011: More interwoven adventures through the wonderland of Grateful Dead live music. &nbsp;Grateful,Dead,Jerry,Garcia,Music,Psychedelic,Rock,Bootlegshttp://www.deadlistening.com/2012/09/gdlg-011-playin-in-playin.htmlhttp://66.147.240.192/~noahwein/gdlg/podcasts/GDLG-011.mp3Under Eternity Blue - Contemporary Psychedelic Folkhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/a-YJpBIdLA8/under-eternity-blue-contemporary.htmlnon-Deadpodcastsicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:59:41 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-6245403669086455045<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TBNq-BUkl_I/AAAAAAAABiM/UszfB5ObsIQ/s1600/UEB-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" qu="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TBNq-BUkl_I/AAAAAAAABiM/UszfB5ObsIQ/s200/UEB-logo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The thirteenth installment of the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> radio program hits the Internet airwaves this weekend on <a href="http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/">Spirit Plants Radio</a> with two show times: Saturday, June 16 at 7pm EST, and Sunday, June 17 at 8am EST.<br /><div><br />Most fans of this site probably also enjoy a wide variety of psychedelic folk from the 60's and 70's. In this episode, we explore similar musical pleasures produced in the more modern times of our current century. Check out the creative juices that are flowing in the here and now. You will be very glad you did.<br /><br />After this weekend's airings, this episode will be added to the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue podcast series</a> and if you are subscribed, you will find this broadcast appearing as a new podcast download then. Information for subscribing can be found at the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue Music</a> site itself.</div><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369547574036029666" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/SoR3Ecr6YOI/AAAAAAAABYs/wfhjreHeSmE/s200/spfradiobanner.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 93px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /><br /><br /><center><a href="http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/">http://www.spiritplantsradio.com/</a><br /><a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> with DJ Arkstar<br />Saturday, June 16: 7pm EST<br />Sunday, June 17: 8am EST</center><br /><div>The full weekend line up (11am PST Saturday - 11pm PST Sunday) is listed on the Spirit Plants Radio page above.</div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/a-YJpBIdLA8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>2http://www.deadlistening.com/2012/06/under-eternity-blue-contemporary.html1980 September 6 - Lewiston, MEhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/w-PLMg-VXQY/1980-september-6-lewiston-me.html1980AUDsEarly '80'sOutdooricepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:22:48 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-205188092325330774<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fjrXPeHBGL0/TrrU4aYQGkI/AAAAAAAABk0/WOoPzvWZtHo/s1600/1980-08-27a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fjrXPeHBGL0/TrrU4aYQGkI/AAAAAAAABk0/WOoPzvWZtHo/s320/1980-08-27a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">GRATEFUL DEAD</div><div style="text-align: center;">Saturday, September 6, 1980</div><div style="text-align: center;">State Fairgrounds - Lewiston, ME</div><div style="text-align: center;">Audience Recording</div><br />Strip away time. Erase the day of the week, the month, the year. Tumble into a kaleidoscope of color. Pass through the membrane. Be the membrane. There never was a membrane. You're back at a Grateful Dead show.<br /><br />When they did it well, it was all about the evaporation of everything that grounded you to the here and now, yet allowed you to slip all the way into the here and now just the same. The Dead's musical muse simply was. It didn't evolve so much as slowly turn, ever-present in the light. A telltale sign that the band was coaxing the muse out came with the strong impression that you were no longer hearing music being played right now. More often, the muse simply sounded like the Grateful Dead, echoing backward and forward, un-tethered to "today."<br /><br />Here's a show with the opportunity to echo as far forward as it could backward. Played in 1980, it stands at the center of the Dead's 30 year career. &nbsp;This is too coincidental a reason, I know, but the show is indeed packed with muse-infused moments. On 9/6/80 the music played the band.<br /><br /><br /><i>Set One: Alabama Getaway &gt; Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Me &amp; My Uncle &gt; Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Stranger, Fried of the Devil, Far From Me &gt; Little Red Rooster, China Cat Sunflower &gt; I Know You Rider &gt; Promised Land</i><br /><i>Set Two: Shakedown Street &gt; Lost Sailor &gt; Saint of Circumstance, Althea, Playin' in the Band &gt; Uncle John's Band &gt; Drums &gt; Space &gt; Not Fade Away &gt; The Wheel &gt; Uncle John's Band &gt; Playin' in the Band &gt; Sugar Magnolia E: One More Saturday Night&gt; Brokedown Palace</i><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qNuCoIJJHME/TrrVmne9g8I/AAAAAAAABk8/dS0Ra1mNWTk/s1600/1980+09-06+poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qNuCoIJJHME/TrrVmne9g8I/AAAAAAAABk8/dS0Ra1mNWTk/s200/1980+09-06+poster.jpg" width="135" /></a></div>The entire show is worth all of your ear's time. Yet, there are several highlights that bear mentioning – so many, that I'm quite sure I will overlook a few.<br /><br />Sugaree plays on and on, Garcia speeding and swirling effortlessly. The band is locked in with him, everyone adding fuel to the fire. It's a healthy, long version, typical of the time period. Feel Like A Stranger is sublime. The jam is tossed into a heavy syncopation after Bobby missteps a "silky silky silky crazy night" line. It's impossible to tell who in the band slips with him, and who stays in the prescribed beat count of the song. But the result is an extremely extended jam that fires flares off in roller coaster streaming arcs for what feels like an eternity. The phrasing is filled with the standard Stranger themes, but it is peppered with so much more. When they somehow manage to pull together for the final refrain, it's like be shaken from an epic dream.<br /><br />China&gt;Rider had a wonderful tendency to catch fire in the early 80's. After just sort of reappearing in rotation at the start of 1979 (after a 4 year hiatus), the song duo had taken on a more upbeat tempo, and by 1980 it was a pure carnival of light and sound. The China&gt;Rider here on 9/6/80 is flat out perfection. A wonderfully glowing solo section cascades into an I Know You Rider which finds Jerry's tone crisp and clean. He rounds corners and rolls over hills, spraying notes to the horizon. The last solo catches the light of the sun and soars like a bird. We slam into a Promised Land that punctuates the end of the first set with the same elevated energy that has permeated the entire show so far. It will blow your hair back and leave you breathless. And set two is still to come…<br /><br />Leading off with a rousing Shakedown&gt;Saint of Circumstance&gt;Lost Sailor, the second set gets off to a fine start. But it's the huge meat of the show where the Grateful Dead's muse fills every pore. In case you overlooked it above, this is a very long ride: Playin'&gt;Uncle John's&gt;Drums&gt;Space&gt;Not Fade Away&gt;Wheel&gt;Uncle John's&gt;Playin'&gt;Sugar Magnolia. Within this roughly 60 minutes stretch of music, we find the Dead dipping deeply into the well of creative juices they've been tapping throughout this entire early September run.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b2FdOi4Pylo/TrrWNSWCUUI/AAAAAAAABlE/HTz3cmJjrT0/s1600/1980+Bob.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-b2FdOi4Pylo/TrrWNSWCUUI/AAAAAAAABlE/HTz3cmJjrT0/s200/1980+Bob.jpg" width="140" /></a></div>Playin' quickly transports the band to no-time. Jerry's rapid staccato lead lines slowly swirling in and out of view are the only hint that it is still 1980. The jam flies down rails of light, banking around hillsides and tunneling through showers of rich watercolor rain. Footing is easily lost as perception is swept up into the buoyancy of music. When Garcia eventually directs the band into Uncle John's it rings with the message that we have arrived. There is a vast opening of hands and hearts here. You can feel it everywhere. The Dead have brought a crowd of thousands to trusted and familiar place. Here, the musical loping is timeless. As the song's joyful bounce tips over into the 7/8 time signature jam, the band is alive with light. Everything dazzles, and the music pulls into great tracks of ascending smoke. Before Drums, form dissolves into pulsing fragments and regressions.<br /><br />Space is brief, yet bottomless. Phil hurls massive planets, churning with purple lava, over and into the body of the crowd. They take away the space to breathe, as the air is filled with magma over and over again. Suffocating, taffy-like moans expand to fill the fairgrounds.<br /><br />Not Fade Away appears and ignites the crowd's energy. And while it arrives off of a Garcia hip check into the boards, The Wheel which follows swoons with that unmistakable Grateful Dead vibe. A timelessness is returning, and when they deftly transition back into Uncle John's Band, the segue jamming is sensational. The ever-present underpinning of joy and welcoming arms envelope the audience and it becomes easy to lose oneself in the long spiraling cycles of the music's structure. Another nice transition unfolds back into Playin' to bring things home. The music swirls between the 7/8 and 10/4 time signatures. Themes merge and the Dead's music elevates the senses. The song ends with a few extra refrains during which Jerry delivers some unexpected soloing sparkle just when you'd otherwise expect the song to be over.<br /><br />Sugar Magnolia closes the set, and things end with a Brokedown Palace encore that further solidifies this show's ability to strike the chord of the timeless Grateful Dead muse. Jerry's short solo floats like starlight through a softly swaying summer breeze. It is enough. We are bathed in the band's pure lore of folk-psychedelic Americana music. It is everything Grateful Dead. Fare thee well.<br /><br /><a href="http://db.etree.org/shn/93782">09/06/80 AUD etree source info</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd1980-09-06.fob.nak700.rolfe.miller.93782.sbeok.flac16">09/06/80 AUD Download</a><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/w-PLMg-VXQY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>25http://www.deadlistening.com/2011/11/1980-september-6-lewiston-me.htmlUnder Eternity Blue - Soul Funkhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/oZjfQVjljaU/under-eternity-blue-soul-funk.htmlnon-Deadicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:55:45 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-7358526335509957900<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TBNq-BUkl_I/AAAAAAAABiM/UszfB5ObsIQ/s1600/UEB-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" qu="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TBNq-BUkl_I/AAAAAAAABiM/UszfB5ObsIQ/s200/UEB-logo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The&nbsp;twelfth&nbsp;installment of the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> radio program hits the Internet airwaves this weekend on <a href="http://radio.spiritplants.org/">Spirit Plants Radio</a> with two show times: Saturday, July 30 at 11pm EST, and Sunday, July 31 at 11am EST.<br /><div><br />It's been a&nbsp;scorcher&nbsp;of a summer so far, and nothing reflects the heat quite as nicely as Soul Funk - that pocked genre of music from the late 60s to very early 70s that was born out of James Brown and had an unmistakable imprint of the dawning of everything we know as Funk today.<br /><br />After this weekend's airings, this episode will be added to the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue podcast series</a> and if you are subscribed, you will find this broadcast appearing as a new podcast download then. Information for subscribing can be found at the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue Music</a> site itself.</div><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369547574036029666" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/SoR3Ecr6YOI/AAAAAAAABYs/wfhjreHeSmE/s200/spfradiobanner.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 93px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /><br /><br /><center><a href="http://radio.spiritplants.org/">http://radio.spiritplants.org/</a><br /><a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> with DJ Arkstar<br />Saturday, July 30: 11pm EST<br />Sunday, July 31: 11am EST</center><br /><div>The full weekend line up (11am PST Saturday - 11pm PST Sunday) is listed on the Spirit Plants Radio page above.</div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/oZjfQVjljaU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0http://www.deadlistening.com/2011/07/under-eternity-blue-soul-funk.html1974 May 25 - UC Santa Barbarahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/CXLAF8A-De4/1974-may-25-uc-santa-barbara.html1974AUDsMid '70'sOutdooricepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:54:27 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-3351394988621364469﻿﻿ <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_f8dppxBidA/TYZINDdbLSI/AAAAAAAABko/JvyoOrf2CVY/s1600/1974-05-25+Jerry.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="257" r6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_f8dppxBidA/TYZINDdbLSI/AAAAAAAABko/JvyoOrf2CVY/s400/1974-05-25+Jerry.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>﻿﻿ <div style="text-align: center;">GRATEFUL DEAD</div><div style="text-align: center;">Saturday, May 25, 1974</div><div style="text-align: center;">Campus Stadium, UC Santa Barbara -- Goleta, CA</div><div style="text-align: center;">Audience &amp; Soundboard Recordings</div><br />Judged across the entire 30 year span of Grateful Dead music, 1973 and 1974 possess tremendous similarities. However, when viewed in detail they reveal stark differences at many levels.<br /><br />The explorative playing style in 1974 has an aggressive and intentional bent. The band was pushing in ‘74, whereas in 1973 things seemed more about open discovery. By 1974 the discoveries of ‘73 were well catalogued, and the band spent that majority of '74 working these discoveries to their bidding.<br /><br />The entire 1974 opus displays this tendency, but the Santa Barbara show on May 25th seems to do so in extreme fashion. 5/25/74 sounds nearly nothing like 1973. It is a show full of an almost hell-bent intensity which pervades the entire performance.<br /><br /><i>Set 1: U. S. Blues, Mexicali Blues, Deal, Jack Straw, Scarlet Begonias, Beat It On Down The Line, Brown Eyed Women, Me &amp; My Uncle, Sugaree, El Paso, China Cat Sunflower &gt; I Know You Rider, Around &amp; Around</i><br /><i>Set 2: Promised, Ship Of Fools, Big River, Tennessee Jed, Truckin' &gt; Jam &gt; Space &gt; Let It Grow &gt; Wharf Rat, Sugar Magnolia &gt; Going Down The Road Feelin' Bad &gt; One More Saturday Night, E: Casey Jones</i><br /><br />We are treated to both a fine soundboard and an audience recording of this sweet show. Being at an outdoor venue in midday, one can't help but appreciate, yet again, the glory of the Wall of Sound being preserved on tape in the open air. The audience tape, recorded by Jeremy Witt, pulses with a thick and almost suffocating electricity that only 1974 could produce. It is not to be missed.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-99dj2f-Qve8/TYZI0wrIzOI/AAAAAAAABks/B48dqvsConU/s1600/1974-05-25+Bob.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" r6="true" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-99dj2f-Qve8/TYZI0wrIzOI/AAAAAAAABks/B48dqvsConU/s200/1974-05-25+Bob.jpg" width="200" /></a>I'm not keeping tabs on such a thing, but the Scarlet Begonias here on 5/25 may be the fastest one on record. The song's syncopated rhythms stand out like spikes. Scarlet churns like a great ball of fire, packed with the energy of swirling suns and titanic plumes of lightning. In whiplash fashion, the band flies through the song's verses, leading to some Donna wailing that eclipses anything you may have heard in another show. She truly outdoes herself -- the energy of the song possessing her in a way that I've not heard before or after (and I've heard my fair share of Donna wails). It's brief, but she seems catapulted into the air by the rushing music. Jerry follows this up with a rapid solo which rounds into the end of the song so quickly it will make your head spin.</div><br />But this barely hints at the intensity found in the China&gt;Rider later in the set. Searing, devastating, nearly brutal in tempo, this China Cat jam will evaporate the air in your lungs. The Dead explode through the descending four chord block section and whirl into I Know You Rider amidst a blaze of glory. Phil is causing continental shifts while Garcia's guitar strings become comets burrowing into the atmosphere, their trailing tails crackling with strobe light sparklers. We reach the end of the song as if it was speeding by like a rocketing freight train. It slams to a stop leaving our eyes as wide open as the horizon.The music is taking no prisoners today.<br /><br />You won't find too many mentions of the tune Around &amp; Around on these pages, but as if to outdo the entire first set leading up to it, this version steps in and demolishes everything for miles around. Rock-n-Rock all the way. Whoa. They need to stop here just to let the Wall cool down a little.<br /><br />The May 1974 run is punctuated with four fantastic Truckin's over six shows.Number one can be visited on <a href="http://www.deadlistening.com/2008/02/1974-may-12-reno-nv.html">5/12/74</a>. Here on the closing day of the run, with the full head of steam this sweltering show has been building already, we launch into another epic rendition.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Hd1JIxQfQHo/TYZJEQobihI/AAAAAAAABkw/WjwFwbIv2CY/s1600/1974-05-25+Phil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" r6="true" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Hd1JIxQfQHo/TYZJEQobihI/AAAAAAAABkw/WjwFwbIv2CY/s200/1974-05-25+Phil.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Out of the final verse great torrents of molten lava and serpent tongue licking fire flood every pore. Melting wagon wheels of imploding light fuse all senses into one avalanche of power. Slowly, the band lets the crushing energy of the music give way to a more liquid and loping landscape. Garcia eases into great rich bell tones and the music slips into the air as if turned into ten thousand multi-hued feathers. The air becomes filled with music streaming and trailing in all directions. Eventually, the ironclad connectivity of sound is broken and the music forms undulating mountains spread across a valley stretching into the distance. Coils and tendrils seethe underfoot coming to grip the terrain more and more tightly. Wind shifts and Let It Grow shimmers into view.<br /><br />Let It Grow, as one might expect, takes off like a rocket ship. Played as fast as any version I can recall, the surging music allows Garcia to reach speeding staccato notes in his solo while also giving way to great swooning shooting stars. This Let It Grow jamming distinguishes much of the 1974 playing style and stands in direct contrast to 1973. Things just didn't move this fast in that earlier year.<br /><br />Let It Grow tips over the edge of the world into vast clouds, cascading sublimely into Wharf Rat. The song goes on to brew a deeply entwined tapestry of sound-colors. It latches itself to the pulse of our breathing; the marrow in our bones is awash with the touch of this timeless rhythm. The veil of reality dissolves into infinite details, strumming an ancient and haunting song of the soul. Music becomes water and wind finding its way into every crevice; filling every vessel. Here, again, is the forever beating heart of the Grateful Dead. With no effort, we merge into that which can only be described as something we've always known to be ourselves. <br /><br />By the time the band pulls out Going Down The Road Feeling Bad, we are back in the direct path of the scorching sun. Billy's drumming dances like a symphony of rainbow refractions out of a crystal seascape. He appears to be coming from every possible direction. Jerry lets fly one fiery solo after another, eventually riding that familiar geyser of swirling light into the sky, illuminating the clouds from within. The show seems incapable of exhausting its source of power, and drives on through a set closing One More Saturday Night, and a decidedly tasty Casey Jones in encore. Whew!<br /><br /><a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=111301">05/25/74 AUD etree source info</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd1974-05-25.aud.gems.111301.flac16">05/25/74 AUD Download</a><br /><br /><a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=205">05/25/74 SBD etree source info</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd1974-05-25.sbd.jmiller.205.sbeok.shnf">05/25/74 SBD Stream</a><br /><br />note: All photos were taken on 5/25/74, photographer credit unknown.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/CXLAF8A-De4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>12http://www.deadlistening.com/2011/03/1974-may-25-uc-santa-barbara.html1981 March 9 - Madison Square Gardenhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/jBq9I74-fm8/1981-march-9-madison-square-garden.html1981AUDsEarly '80'sIndooricepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:14:11 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-4079833063307178579<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uQDVMPxWvc8/TVyNxWiR87I/AAAAAAAABkc/TZcvhixV6p0/s1600/1981+jer+bob+phil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" j6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uQDVMPxWvc8/TVyNxWiR87I/AAAAAAAABkc/TZcvhixV6p0/s320/1981+jer+bob+phil.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><center style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">GRATEFUL DEAD<br />Monday, March 9, 1981<br />Madison Square Garden - New York, NY<br />Audience Recording</center><center>&nbsp;</center><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The maturation process for a Deadhead tape collector is a very interesting thing indeed. Whether it's in the way one slowly develops an ear to "hear" a year from just a few seconds of a song, or gains the ability to call a tune long before it starts based off of random between-song noodling happening on stage; with more listening comes the perception of subtleties and nuances which can elude other less experienced ears.</div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">One subtle nuance that sticks with me from the time long before I was a seasoned listener myself is that of being able to discern a "really on" show from one that might be considered "normal." "On" refers to that level of play which goes decidedly over the top from what we might consider a regular Grateful Dead performance. It's different than a "good show." It's actually more about a certain extra layer of sparkle, for lack of a better explanation. </div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This nuance sticks out for me because I distinctly remember having no clue how to discern the "really on" attribute at all. And I recall not caring. I recall feeling like every new tape that passed through my mail box was "really on" as far as I was concerned. In this, my ignorance truly was bliss.</div><br />And then I heard 03/09/81.<br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YEGK_ZqGzPM/TVyOIhbm7yI/AAAAAAAABkg/dJDLvDnmXeI/s1600/1981+bobby+goofey+grin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" j6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YEGK_ZqGzPM/TVyOIhbm7yI/AAAAAAAABkg/dJDLvDnmXeI/s200/1981+bobby+goofey+grin.jpg" width="133" /></a>Shows from the 80's tend to blur together. Maybe this makes it somehow easier for certain performances to stand out -- I'm not sure. Regardless, one song in to 03/09/81 and it becomes abundantly clear that Jerry is on. I suppose recognizing this takes at least having heard enough shows to create a frame of reference, but during his solo in Feel Like A Stranger, when his amplifier tubes are being pushed to the edge of destruction -- an over saturated and piercing tone -- Jerry explodes like a plume of liquid starlight. It's not a long passage, but it's more than enough to make anyone within an ear's distance cock an eyebrow and smile. And this quality proceeds to infuse the entire night's performance. There's something about Garcia all night. He is really on.</div><br />Before diving into the show, it's also worth noting that this Barry Glassberg audience recording is quite certainly one of the very best audio documents around. Clear from the first notes, this recording oozes with the power to whisk you directly out of your everyday existence, and land you squarely in the sweetest spot imaginable at a 1981 Dead show.<br /><br /><em>Set 1: Feel Like A Stranger, Althea &gt; C. C. Rider, Ramble On Rose &gt; El Paso, Deep Elem Blues, Beat It On Down The Line, Bird Song, Minglewood Blues</em><br /><em>Set 2: China Cat Sunflower &gt; I Know You Rider&gt; Samson &amp; Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet &gt; Uncle John's Band &gt; Drums &gt; Space &gt; Other One &gt; Stella Blue &gt; Good Lovin' E: U. S. Blues</em><br /><br />Highlights tumble over each other throughout the show. Almost no song goes untouched by Garcia's clearly overreaching endeavors. Beyond the riveting Stranger to open the first set, Bird Song contains wonders both great and small. There are lines in Jerry's solo that pierce the air; repeating phrases that echo down miles of mental canyons, forcing the song's dynamics to pull in every extreme. Then there are passages spun into endlessly intricate tapestries with threads as thin as hair; gossamer strands of coiling moonlight. This is a version not to be missed.<br /><br />A fine China&gt;Rider opens the second set, and within the transition is a deliciously long intro jam to I Know You Rider. It finds Jerry repeatedly allowing himself an extra set of measures, unwilling to step off into the song itself. This forces us to become more and more lost in the moment, and the intoxicating nature of the second set is only just starting. The Rider bounding directly into Samson &amp; Delilah is a nice added delight.<br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wfxo3RtF2hE/TVyPEoGoC3I/AAAAAAAABkk/XdNn01BnOoE/s1600/1981+Jerry+full+shot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" j6="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wfxo3RtF2hE/TVyPEoGoC3I/AAAAAAAABkk/XdNn01BnOoE/s200/1981+Jerry+full+shot.jpg" width="164" /></a>The music expanding out of Estimated Prophet sounds like a slowed down China&gt;Rider groove that slowly undulates, breathing whispers and mysteries. The 7/8 time signature quickly evaporates and every note becomes syncopated upon the last. Soon we are on slow rolling hills with each musician following his own lazy path. Subtly, Garcia massages a key change and the jam slips into Comes A Time territory bringing with it a familiar and joyous opening of the heart. Garcia's notes sing, and we are smiling forever, deliciously lost with the band.</div><br />Sun flakes settle, and murmurings echo quietly around us. The music is thinking, pondering its next direction. Like a slowly drawn curtain, Uncle John's Band is revealed. Always a perfect choice, we are swept in, spinning on the trails of Jerry's lightly arching melodies. When we sail into the final section of the song, his solo is a mix of staccato swirls and bursting bird calls. Edges sharpen and Garcia's tone fluctuates between ice and honey. The jam takes on the pure Grateful Dead voice, defying song identification. We are resting close to the music's soul here, and invisibly we pass into Drums &amp; Space.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Treated to a post Space Other One, things can hardly get any more satisfying. As is often the case, the band demands surrender across treacherous terrain. Boulders and lighting, ancient masks and imploding planets -- the rush of sensory overload tips us over the edge. Hopeless to define a myriad of images that pass in great thousand year gusts, we merge with the music completely. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Edges give way, and miraculously we emerge out of the second verse into a gleaming, towering hall of trees lit from within. The music swirls delicately between branches nearly unseen. Jerry's voice appears leading us through a delicate and touching Stella Blue. Once again, the band exudes a tenderness that elevates the musical experience beyond mere Rock ‘n Roll.</div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Once hearing this show, it might be easier for you to put your finger on nuances that separate the different levels of Grateful Dead performances. This show is a lesson in hearing the energy within the music, and recognizing it in other places forever afterward. </div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=82372">03/09/81 AUD etree source info</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd1981-03-09.nak700.glassberg.motb.82372.sbeok.flac16">03/09/81 AUD Download</a></div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/jBq9I74-fm8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>18http://www.deadlistening.com/2011/02/1981-march-9-madison-square-garden.htmlUnder Eternity Blue - Winter Walkinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/otDa4OmhGnw/under-eternity-blue-winter-walking.htmlnon-Deadicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Sat, 11 Dec 2010 06:16:01 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-8130975754384149345<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TBNq-BUkl_I/AAAAAAAABiM/UszfB5ObsIQ/s1600/UEB-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" qu="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TBNq-BUkl_I/AAAAAAAABiM/UszfB5ObsIQ/s200/UEB-logo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The eleventh installment of the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> radio program hits the Internet airwaves this weekend on <a href="http://www.spfradio.yage.net/">Spirit Plants Radio</a> with two show times: Saturday, December 11 at 8pm PST, and Sunday, December 12 at 7am PST.<br /><div><br />Spirit Plants Radio asked DJs to give&nbsp;this week's show some level of a seasonal theme. During the busy holiday season, this episode opts to explore the solitude and peace that may be found on a late night walk in Winter. The show attempts to paint a musical landscape to accompany the listener on a personal and peaceful journey - sometimes handy at this time of year.<br /><br />After this weekend's airings, this episode will be added to the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue podcast series</a> and if you are subscribed, you will find this broadcast appearing as a new podcast download then. Information for subscribing can be found at the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue Music</a> site itself.</div><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369547574036029666" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/SoR3Ecr6YOI/AAAAAAAABYs/wfhjreHeSmE/s200/spfradiobanner.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 93px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /><br /><br /><center><a href="http://spfradio.yage.net/">http://spfradio.yage.net/</a><br /><a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> with DJ Arkstar<br />Saturday, December 11: 8pm PST<br />Sunday, December 12: 7am PST</center><br /><div>The full weekend line up (11am PST Saturday - 11pm PST Sunday) is listed on the Spirit Plants Radio page above.</div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/otDa4OmhGnw" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/12/under-eternity-blue-winter-walking.htmlThe Music Never Stoppedhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/hpQ5jwxvx94/music-never-stopped.htmltrading communityicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:30:35 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-3641983732902044936<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TO_NWaD_y_I/AAAAAAAABjs/yqZOWmI2NeU/s1600/MogBanner.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="40" ox="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TO_NWaD_y_I/AAAAAAAABjs/yqZOWmI2NeU/s400/MogBanner.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>We as Deadhead's are typically a musically sophisticated bunch. Most of us are hard wired to enjoy music deeply, and often our tastes expand far and wide.<br /><br />As I've mentioned here from time to time, the Dead only fill about 10% of my musical universe on a daily or weekly basis; often far less than even that. In many years of pushing my musical horizons, I have always looked for resources in the sphere of "all music" that can do for me what I try to do here in the Grateful Dead sphere - take my hand, make suggestions, and turn me on to music I would otherwise never find. One of the best I've found is <b><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-4186379-10822850" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" onmouseover="window.status='http://mog.com';return true;" target="_blank">MOG.com</a><img border="0" height="1" src="http://www.awltovhc.com/image-4186379-10822850" width="1" /></b>.<br /><br />Beyond its depth of music and the community, I get fixated on the simple slider tool which allows me to see "similar artists" while listening to any song. It's an instant wormhole to connected music I've never heard. I get lost in that slider like most folks get lost playing video games.<br /><br />MOG is offering <a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-4186379-10822850" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" onmouseover="window.status='http://mog.com';return true;" target="_blank">free trial memberships</a><img border="0" height="1" src="http://www.awltovhc.com/image-4186379-10822850" width="1" /> right now. If you haven't played around with this site, I encourage you to do so. <b><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-4186379-10822850" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" onmouseover="window.status='http://mog.com';return true;" target="_blank">Check it out</a><img border="0" height="1" src="http://www.awltovhc.com/image-4186379-10822850" width="1" /></b>.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/hpQ5jwxvx94" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>3http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/11/music-never-stopped.html1973 March 24 - The Spectrumhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/ZJSD1RSlJ44/1973-march-24-spectrum.html1973Mid '70'sSBDsicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:43:52 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-1235599192717316265<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="281" px="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TOL2quqhUvI/AAAAAAAABjg/abb5Ca3kRqY/s400/19730520_1933.jpg" width="400" />&nbsp;</div><br /><center style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">GRATEFUL DEAD<br />Saturday, March 24, 1973<br />The Spectrum - Philadelphia, PA<br />Soundboard Recording</center><br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">So we established early on that I set up the Grateful Dead Listening Guide playing the character of an old hippie guy living across the street from you. One day a couple of years ago you and he struck up a conversation, and soon you found yourself invited over to the old guy's basement where you were seated in the sweet spot between artfully spaced stereo speakers as he began pulling tapes off the wall, filling your ears with stories, enchantments and mysteries deep and vast. </div><br />Judging from your repeated return visits, everything has gone very well. You continually enjoy an endless parade of music-magic, and the old hippie finds tremendous pleasure in learning more about his own spiritual connection to the music through this sharing and the reflected joy it clearly produces in your welcoming eyes and ears.<br /><br />By this point we've share a great deal of music and it sometimes becomes a slight struggle for the old hippie to pick the next tape. This time, rather than trying to outdo myself by producing a completely hidden gem, I've decided to go back to one of the very first shows I ever received from the year 1973. <br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TOL3jisZnLI/AAAAAAAABjk/RAe7RRmj7tM/s1600/19730324_2176.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TOL3jisZnLI/AAAAAAAABjk/RAe7RRmj7tM/s200/19730324_2176.jpg" width="132" /></a>March 24th 1973 is well circulated, and I wore my own tape thin way back when my grand total of 1973 shows was about 2. Perhaps because of this, the show never really struck me as something to recommend to you here. Perhaps I felt somehow that the show's magic wasn't unique enough. Maybe I thought that it was too commonplace a tape. No matter the reason, it didn't help that I hadn't listened to the show in a very, very long time. That all changed on a whim when I pulled the show back out.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Revisiting it now, I'm struck with the realization that this show I so easily let myself forget over the years possesses a heaping helping of that which I treasure most about 1973 Grateful Dead jamming – a certain nimble jazzy Ferris wheel sound that I often only find deep in the summer of this fine year. It's no wonder that this, as one of my very first tapes, cemented my lifelong connection to the Dead, and to 1973 in particular.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>Set 1: Bertha, Beat It On Down The Line, Don't Ease Me In, The Race Is On, Cumberland Blues, Box Of Rain, Row Jimmy, Jack Straw, They Love Each Other, Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Looks Like Rain, Wave That Flag, El Paso, Here Comes Sunshine, Me&nbsp;&amp; Bobby McGee, Loser, Playin' In The Band</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>Set 2: Promised Land, China Cat Sunflower&nbsp;&gt; I Know You Rider, Big River, Stella Blue, Me &amp; My Uncle, He's Gone&nbsp;&gt; Truckin'&nbsp;&gt; Spanish Jam&nbsp;&gt; Space&nbsp;&gt; Dark Star&nbsp;&gt; Sing Me Back Home&nbsp;&gt; Sugar Magnolia E: Johnny B. Goode</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The pleasures of this show are not only waiting deep in the second set. We are treated to a lovely first set and quite an extended Playin' In The Band to wrap it up. Psychedelics explode on the scene as if they've been held back to the bursting point. The music swirls. Colors bleed. Jerry casts out leads that tip toe deftly over rolling river rapids, often taking a path up over tree tops and then incredibly threading between blades of grass. Late in the jam we find Garcia taking a break while the rest of the band continues to churn with a kaleidoscoping display of yellow-orange embers dancing through burning logs. Jerry returns and adds searing white and fuchsia flames to the mix as the song returns to close the first set.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">China&gt;Riders in March 1973 are noteworthy for often delivering an unprecedented amount of energy and momentum, and the one here on March 24th wastes little time living up to the reputation. The transition jam flies. The band locks into a shuffle with Garcia streaming sunbeams, and the familiar four-chord jam, while not being as heavily pronounced as in other versions, does not disappoint as we transition into I Know You Rider. With solo sections that burst with that joyful effervescence that defines the Dead in so many ways, we can't help but smile throughout the entire song.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TOL5oA9RMhI/AAAAAAAABjo/HcVazVMBWCQ/s1600/1973+02-24+garcia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TOL5oA9RMhI/AAAAAAAABjo/HcVazVMBWCQ/s200/1973+02-24+garcia.jpg" width="136" /></a>Of course it's the shows extended jam in the second set that places this show on a pedestal, and for good reason. Out of Truckin' the band lets the music settle into a meadow of grass where wind barely whispers. Jerry delicately lofts out the opening lines of Dark Star, yet no one takes the reins with him. Instead, the entire band slips effortlessly into a rolling jazzy 1973 jam that typifies the year completely. This jam is as reminiscent of the <a href="http://www.deadlistening.com/2008/10/1973-july-27-watkins-glen.html">big '73 Watkins Jam</a> as nearly anything else on record in this year or otherwise. The tempo flies as Garcia unleashes long staccato runs that reflect and echo upon themselves leaving trails in the air, cutting a dewy mist with ripples of energy. The purity of the Grateful Dead's musical soul is stretched into the sky, pulling us into a rapturous dance erasing all physical barriers. In this music we feel the Grateful Dead resonate far more deeply within us than words may express.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">A small guitar break finds Billy and Phil bebopping out a Drum and Bass solo. The rest of the band returns and picks up right where it left off. We are lost, fuse and reflected within the invisible fabric that beats in the empty space of atoms. Soon a Spanish Jam appears and is quickly vaporized into caverns, light years deep. Great drops of sound randomly take shape and gather together with invisible gravities. Orbits shimmer. Waves rise and fall. Slowly a subtle symphony takes shape. Singing stars and slowly bowed strings rise into harmonies, and the sky fills with a thousand sunsets. An ocean-sized crescendo, as delicate as an evening breeze through trees fills the infinity all around. Dark Star appears.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">While it can easily be touted as the shortest Dark Star on record (at only about four and a half minutes), all fairness points to Garcia tipping the Dark Star hand some twenty-two minutes prior as the jam first took form. But we aren't here to quibble over the length of the song. The music flutters like slow rolling redwood tree-sized velvet drapes stretched for a hundred miles around us. And we are eventually left in awe as the band transitions liquidly into Sing Me Back Home. Here the gospel overtones conjure up that familiar feeling of sitting around a campfire, as a story is told. When Garcia hits his solo, notes blossom streaming flower pedals all around. He somehow conjures every ounce of the sound system's power into delicate footsteps that leave no trace in the sand. Grace, as simply delivered as ever.</div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">A classic Dead tape to be sure. Worth the listen even if its been sitting on a shelf for a quarter century or more. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=1216">03/24/73 SBD etree source info</a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd73-03-24.sbd.hamilton.1216.sbeok.shnf">03/24/73 SBD Stream</a></div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/ZJSD1RSlJ44" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>3http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/11/1973-march-24-spectrum.html30 Days of Dead: Free Downloadshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/uHN0uW8xxXs/30-days-of-dead-free-downloads.htmltrading communityicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:57:50 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-8919810116547247388<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TNF36Ab8obI/AAAAAAAABjc/t7qipMrFwR4/s1600/30+days+of+dead.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TNF36Ab8obI/AAAAAAAABjc/t7qipMrFwR4/s200/30+days+of+dead.JPG" width="105" /></a></div>The Grateful Dead are digging into the vault to offer up daily gems for free listening and downloads, and chances to win stuff.&nbsp; In their own words:<br /><br /><em>"The </em><a href="http://bit.ly/a4pz3X"><em>30 DAYS OF DEAD</em></a><em> celebration honors the spirit of camaraderie exemplified by the tapers who diligently documented the Dead’s concerts and trade them freely with other Dead Heads. Encouraged by the band, this practice of sharing helped foster not only a legion of devoted fans, but also created a unique sense of community that has transcended generations. </em><br /><em><br /></em><br /><em>Since the majority of the 30 live tracks offered during 30 DAYS OF DEAD are previously unreleased soundboard recordings, both life-long Deadheads and those previously uninitiated to the joys of the band will be sure to enjoy the free tunes."</em><br /><br />A nice little bit of the Grateful Dead spirit and community continuing to keep its flame alive. <a href="http://bit.ly/a4pz3X">Check it out</a>.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/uHN0uW8xxXs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>1http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/11/30-days-of-dead-free-downloads.htmlJesse McReynolds - Songs of the Grateful Deadhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/h1caGsB5UIM/jesse-mcreynolds-songs-of-grateful-dead.htmlnon-Deadtrading communityicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:33:42 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-7953810293687592385<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TLB7dDCFM1I/AAAAAAAABjY/8agJVF-gsUQ/s1600/Jesse+McReynolds%E2%80%99+Songs+of+the+Grateful+Dead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TLB7dDCFM1I/AAAAAAAABjY/8agJVF-gsUQ/s200/Jesse+McReynolds%E2%80%99+Songs+of+the+Grateful+Dead.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Once in a while Grateful Dead tributes appear in the world of popular music. Given the subtle underpinnings of what actually makes Grateful Dead music worth honoring—that often being much more than the songs on a Grateful Dead record—the thought of a tribute album often struggles to appear as anything more than novelty. <br /><br />This is not the case with Bluegrass legend Jesse McReynolds’ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VC6ERW?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=gratdeadlistg-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B003VC6ERW">Songs of the Grateful Dead: A Tribute to Jerry Garcia &amp; Robert Hunter</a>. Released earlier this week, here the Dead seem to have been honored in a way that polishes a jewel with which we are already familiar but might not have studied quite so deeply.<br /><br />The bluegrass roots of the Dead are well known to those who cherish their music, but might be something of a surprise to the mainstream. And while psychedelic jug band bluegrass music might be an eyebrow raiser to many, this element within the foundation of the Dead’s musical spirit is clear. Introduce Jesse McReynonds working with David Nelson to produce a collection of Hunter/Garcia compositions, and we quickly see how naturally Garcia’s music finds home in the Bluegrass genre.<br /><br />I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of the CD, and to chat with Mr. McReynolds about the project. His approach is pure and without cliché. His song selection pushes the boundaries to a place where producing outright bluegrass versions of Grateful Dead songs would seem contrived. Wisely instead, tunes like Franklin’s Tower and Fire On The Mountain showcase fine Bluegrass musician riffing into Grateful Dead territory. And Bird Song might be the finest example of where Bluegrass and the Dead find union. <br /><br />For Deadheads, the entire CD offers an instant sense of familiarity—all of the songs are well known classics. To hear them presented in McReynold’s style, often with the addition of pedal steel (Stella Blue – perfect!) and other instrumentation well within the Grateful Dead universe, allows us a very intimate perspective on terrain we have traveled often. And the disc is capped off with the lovely and catchy “Day By Day,” a tune written with Robert Hunter himself.<br /><br />I recommend you <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VC6ERW?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=gratdeadlistg-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B003VC6ERW">check out Songs of the Grateful Dead</a>&nbsp;for yourself and see the familiar in a fresh and naturally fitting light.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/h1caGsB5UIM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>4http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/10/jesse-mcreynolds-songs-of-grateful-dead.htmlDead Symphony No. 6 Comes Alivehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/wP82ys-OH84/dead-symphony-no-6-comes-alive.htmltrading communityicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:03:28 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-2899725259043966547<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TJ4Mk3jfhyI/AAAAAAAABjU/mgz-R-UUgMA/s1600/johnsonrb5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TJ4Mk3jfhyI/AAAAAAAABjU/mgz-R-UUgMA/s200/johnsonrb5.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Road trip to Georgia, anyone? Something good's sure to go down when the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra performs on October 5th, 2010.<br /><br />The iconic Deadhead adage of "we are everywhere" never seemed more true than when I first heard about Lee Johnson's Dead Symphony No. 6. The Grateful Dead's infusion into the world of classical music was something of a Deadhead community triumph, yet I really didn't know what to expect from this fusion, and I'll admit that I leaned pretty heavily on the skeptic side. Grateful Dead "with strings?" Oh dear, please no.<br /><br />What is actually transpiring in Dead Symphony No. 6 puts all these fears to rest. You might compare it to the way the Dead's music eclipses the ubiquitous stereotype of "drug music for stoners." This is no mere "Dead with strings" performance.<br /><br />Having listened, I now find myself hoping that the Dead Symphony caravan somehow makes its way up to Chicago so I can hear it live myself. Lee Johnson's creation isn't something that can be called a Dead tribute. It's more as if the Grateful Dead's muse has manifested itself through Johnson into a classical expression. Lee has allowed the Dead's melodies to seed a final product that is less about Grateful Dead songs being played by a symphony and much more about the intricacies and layers of Grateful Dead creativity finding a compelling voice. Sometimes we can almost sing along, while other times we are given merely taste enough to know which song sparked Johnson to compose and arrange. From there we are treated to a musical experience that reaches its own "gold ring, down inside."<br /><br />I bring all this up because it is an intriguing element in the evolution of our Deadhead community, and since the music is doing something truly special, I feel compelled to make sure any Atlanta Heads who frequent these pages know about the <a href="http://www.lagrangesymphony.org/60.html">LaGrange Symphony Orchestra concert on October 5th</a>. It is sure to be an eye- and ear-opening evening. Get there if you can, and come back and tell us all about it.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/wP82ys-OH84" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>6http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/09/dead-symphony-no-6-comes-alive.html1978 December 19 - Jackson, MShttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/mCEdMnkClXs/1978-december-19-jackson-ms.html1978AUDsIndoorLate '70'smusical satoriicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:10:45 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-7840105262029421743<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="234" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TJtuSCr46LI/AAAAAAAABi8/0WUtDMN9-7w/s320/1978+Jerry+looking+down-crop.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">GRATEFUL DEAD</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tuesday, December 19, 1978</div><div style="text-align: center;">Memorial Coliseum, State Fairgrounds - Jackson, MS</div><div style="text-align: center;">Audience Recording</div><br />A classic and fantastic audience tape from late 1978, the Mississippi State Fairgrounds show on December 19th goes well beyond showcasing stellar heights attained in ‘78. This show works that special sort of time travelling magic we occasionally find where the exact year of the performance becomes indistinguishable to even the most seasoned listener. And even before the knobs and dials are turned back to 1973, this tape will be knocking your socks off.<br /><br /><em>Set 1: Mississippi Half Step Uptown Toodeloo&nbsp;&gt; Franklin's Tower, New Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Me&nbsp;&amp; My Uncle &gt; Big River, Loser, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Lazy Lightning&nbsp;&gt; Supplication</em><br /><em>Set 2: Scarlet Begonias&nbsp;&gt; Fire On The Mountain, Promised Land, Stagger Lee, Truckin' &gt; Drums&nbsp;&gt; Other One&nbsp;&gt; Stella Blue&nbsp;&gt; Not Fade Away&nbsp;&gt; Around &amp; Around E: Casey Jones</em><br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We are treated to a fine show opening Half Step&nbsp;&gt; Franklin's with Garcia shredding his way into the transition and liquidly loopifying his way through the solos in Franklin's Tower. The show gets off to a delightful start.</div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TJus5Ax1vHI/AAAAAAAABjE/8F0FcQaH-40/s1600/1978-04-22+jerry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TJus5Ax1vHI/AAAAAAAABjE/8F0FcQaH-40/s200/1978-04-22+jerry.jpg" width="133" /></a>The first set works its way along, establishing a quintessential Dead vibe. The set wraps up with an extended Row Jimmy (over 12 minutes) and a Lazy Lightning&nbsp;&gt; Supplication which, while experiencing a drop in levels just at the transition that will force you to crank up the volume a bit, caps the set on a crest of energy sure to pour over into the second set.</div><br />That said, Scarlet Begonias has a somewhat shaky start with what feels like a dragging tempo and Jerry blowing lyrics. But things quickly pull together, and as Garcia plays his first solo he stokes embers into flames, and flames into shimmering heat. We come out on the other side for the song's last verse slipping directly into a sublime musical journey. The tape is sounding perfect. Everything spreads out for miles in all direction and each instrument occupies its own distinct space. The jam moves like wind over a gigantic sail. It ripples and swells, sometimes slowly, sometimes in gusts. The music pushes from several directions at once. Fragments turn and reflect light into unexpected colors and there is a subtle disjointedness to the otherwise rolling and rocking which provides brief secretive glances into a chaotic underpinning far below. Before we can truly grasp these secrets, Fire On The Mountain's theme appears, and we drift effortlessly toward a more familiar shoreline.<br /><br />The solos through Fire On The Mountain soar. Jerry's tone cries with an emotional voice as Bobby indulges (over indulges?) his love of playing slide up over the 21st fret. Still, the song builds beautifully. Garcia's voice begins to roar and scream. He hits the final solo section and rides the song's theme into the sky. Everything begins to tremble and shake. Phil and the drummers crash and tumble. Jerry continues to burn as the song comes to a fine finish.<br /><br />In Truckin' we find a full exploration of the secretive chaotic worlds hinted at earlier. The jam unfolds quickly into a swirl of Other One infused darkness. The downbeat slips completely from view and a sparkling canopy fills our visual field, full of slowly undulating clouds. A wonderfully extended jam ensues tinged with a delicacy that belies the typical themes of a 1978 Dead show. Slowly a creeping intensity floods the sky and we are being driven into showers of fire and glass. The chaotic underpinning of twisted roots gives way to Drums. They stand as tall as mountains before us, and the recording offers them to us as no soundboard could.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TJu6zgUb5bI/AAAAAAAABjM/BT-EqvBoxk0/s1600/19780604_1797.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TJu6zgUb5bI/AAAAAAAABjM/BT-EqvBoxk0/s200/19780604_1797.jpg" width="158" /></a></div>We come out of Drums not into Space, but rather into a lilting jam section that instantly transports us to the thick summer pastures of the jams found on <a href="http://www.deadlistening.com/2008/02/1973-june-22-pne-coliseum-vancouver-bc.html">June 22, 1973</a>. The tone of all the instruments is warm and fluid. Phil and Bobby, especially, sound as if they have been grafted in from five years prior. And the music has an ease to it that is unmistakably 1973-esque. This haunting reminiscence goes on for what feels like forever and leaves us in a space of breathless joy. When Phil hammers us into Other One proper, caves and twisting fractal caverns spin us in all directions. Electricity pours through the outer layer of our skin. It is as if there are several versions of the song being played at once with multiple bands swelling in and out of view—cross fades pull in like tides, then recede like shadows. There is little room for anything but the music here. It is as if we've been absorbed by an enormous intake of the band's breath and will not return to our known place in the cosmos until they have finished with us.<br /><br />This “finishing” actually transports us to as tranquil a setting as can be conceived. Stella Blue appears out of thin air, and Jerry has us huddled close to hear his story. And as we travel out of this songs into the next, we are treated to a segue of such magical intertwining that it feels almost criminal to realize the Dead never did it quite like this again, ever.<br /><br />There's little point in trying to describe in words the way Stella Blue and Not Fade Away become one during this transition. It goes beyond most indulgent expectations related to the Grateful Dead's ability to weave one song to the next. If you've never heard it, this is a slack-jawed and drool producing passage of music that may amaze you in its having been hidden from your ears all this time. But such is the world of Grateful Dead concert recordings, is it not? This is really why we're here together now. And I'm glad to be able to pull little gems like this out from time to time, even years after starting us down this path of musical guidance and recommendation.<br /><br />Enjoy. And enjoy again. <br /><br /><a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=19507">12/19/78 AUD etree source info</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd78-12-19.aud-sony.wagner.19507.sbeok.flacf">12/19/78 AUD Download</a><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/mCEdMnkClXs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>3http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/09/1978-december-19-jackson-ms.htmlGDLG-010 - In The Days Betweenhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/MqGJNvl3PlE/gdlg-010-in-days-between.htmlpodcastsicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:29:02 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-4050530409733070624<a href="http://66.147.240.192/~noahwein/gdlg/podcasts/GDLG-010.mp3"><em>Listening Session 010</em></a><em>: Enjoying standout birthday moments across Grateful Dead history during the annual honoring of Jerry Garcia in the days between his coming and going.</em><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" bx="true" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TF3r2rP-fzI/AAAAAAAABis/kK0T1sPmRgE/s200/Stealie+Podcast+blend-bright-full.jpg" width="200" /></div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/MqGJNvl3PlE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>9noListening Session 010: Enjoying standout birthday moments across Grateful Dead history during the annual honoring of Jerry Garcia in the days between his coming and going. www.deadlistening.comListening Session 010: Enjoying standout birthday moments across Grateful Dead history during the annual honoring of Jerry Garcia in the days between his coming and going. Grateful,Dead,Jerry,Garcia,Music,Psychedelic,Rock,Bootlegshttp://www.deadlistening.com/2010/08/gdlg-010-in-days-between.htmlhttp://66.147.240.192/~noahwein/gdlg/podcasts/GDLG-010.mp31982 October 9 - Frost Amphitheatrehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/rwgw88BYURg/1982-october-9-frost-amphitheatre.html1982AUDsEarly '80'sOutdooricepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:18:14 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-6487148595375733910<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TDiY1SYKd6I/AAAAAAAABiU/3DZFM-0dwaM/s1600/1982+-+Jerry+and+Mickey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" rw="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TDiY1SYKd6I/AAAAAAAABiU/3DZFM-0dwaM/s320/1982+-+Jerry+and+Mickey.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><center>GRATEFUL DEAD<br />Saturday, October 9, 1982<br />Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA<br />Audience Recording</center><br /><br />Amidst the backdrop of a jaw-droppingly sensational outdoor audience recording and a blisteringly clear representation of exactly what 1982 sounded like, here we are treated to something of a legendary performance by the Grateful Dead out of this all-too-often forgotten corner of the early 80's. The little two night stand at the Frost Amphitheatre in October 1982 has always been a pretty popular go-to set of shows from this year. Interestingly, as I return to this particular show after nearly a decade I am struck less by the way the band brings the roof down with some colossal psychedelic force, and much more by the way in which this performance exceeds expectation through intricate subtleties that may pass unnoticed by a less attentive ear.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TDiZQudLQiI/AAAAAAAABic/KBzSrppxgW8/s1600/1982-05-22-23+25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" rw="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TDiZQudLQiI/AAAAAAAABic/KBzSrppxgW8/s200/1982-05-22-23+25.jpg" width="126" /></a></div>In this quality, I think this show exudes something of the inherent intoxicating power of the early 80's altogether. I wonder if it might take a more travelled set of ears down the Grateful Dead road to truly hear this substratum of musical magic. Is it something akin to an advanced calculus class that would go completely over the head of someone yet to learn basic algebra? Is it fair to compare more classic Grateful Dead from the 60's and 70's to a basic level math class? I may be treading into dangerous waters with this analogy. Suffice it to say I will take it on as the duty of the Grateful Dead Listening Guide to draw your attention to this show specifically in an effort to make sure you come face to face with this potent yet infinitely subtle psychedelic tapestry. The night is alive with Technicolor sun streams and rivers of floating fractals, elements sitting just below the normally unassuming air. In the same way that 1976 tends to hide an infinite world of swirling detail just beyond the obvious scene before you, this show reveals riches hidden behind trees others may have neglected to peer around.<br /><br /><em>Set 1: Alabama Getaway &gt; Greatest Story Ever Told, They Love Each Other, On The Road Again &gt; Beat It On Down The Line, West L. A. Fade Away, Me &amp; My Uncle &gt; Big River, Dupree's Diamond Blues, The Music Never Stopped &gt; Deal</em><br /><em>Set 2: Throwing Stones &gt; Touch Of Grey, Estimated Prophet &gt; Eyes Of The World &gt; Drums &gt; Space &gt; Truckin' &gt; Other One &gt; Morning Dew, One More Saturday Night E: U. S. Blues</em><br /><br />A delightful and comfortable first set delivers several pleasures, not the least of which are the slippery and twisting paths of The Music Never Stopped and sizzling Deal to close the set off.<br /><br />In set two, as the glittering caverns of Estimated Prophet's end jam begin to unfold before us, we are pulled from a simply sensational field recording made at the hands of Rango Keshavan, responsible for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.deadlistening.com/2008/09/1983-may-13-greek-theatre.html">another equally stellar recording</a> featured on the Guide, directly into a sonic landscape that commands a familiar singularity of experience. Individual boundaries dissolve and we are experiencing the music at what is instantly personal and universal at the same time. This time it comes in the working of subtle fingers. It's in the hidden interplay of rhythm between the drummers; the way the downbeat begins to snake in circles and echoing patterns. It's in the beautiful way that Garcia rises and falls. By the time they transition into Eyes of the World our hearts are lock step in time with the pulse of the band. <br /><br />Jerry's solos in Eyes literally soar off the tape. They peak and dance and sparkle and shine with that joyful exuberance that so typifies the unbounded love deadheads have for the band. Place any fan into this passage of the show and they will begin to smile and sway, unable to remain focused on much else going on around them.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TDiaT__vd-I/AAAAAAAABik/igOr1TOjUNA/s1600/I+Need+A+New+Brain.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" rw="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TDiaT__vd-I/AAAAAAAABik/igOr1TOjUNA/s200/I+Need+A+New+Brain.jpg" width="199" /></a></div>The post Drumz section of the show is what elevates this night into hallowed halls. With a Space that gorgeously swells and sways more than explodes and fractures, we segue nicely into Truckin'. The hints become more and more evident until we are bobbing along with the band directly into the song's unavoidable bounce. Truckin' cooks along and when Jerry hits a glorious high note at the crescendo of the song's massive build up, you can't help but giggle with contentment. Other One soon follows, and it builds out of its own quiet night shrouded ocean. Several minutes pass with the ebb and flow of the music. Here, were we only to be paying passing attention, the music could be said to be meandering aimlessly. Upon closer inspection however, one can discern reflections from the future of the music rippling backwards over us causing time to ripple and swirl. The anticipation of Phil's thundering bass roll, and the upcoming torrent of power soon to scorch the landscape around us is palpable. Once it hits, all bets are off and we cascade downhill in rivers of molten rock and crystal. <br /><br />Out of Other One we arrive at Morning Dew, a song hard pressed not to elevate any second set to a higher level. And while this recording is so thoroughly fine that literally any moment can display the breathtaking clarity of sitting in the sweet spot, when we reach the beginning of the slowly building end portion of this song, this recording begins to pull our senses completely out of the physical sphere. As Jerry lightly plays a tinkling rainbow of melodies the recording surpasses all description. We are the music as it crashes into the sky and flutters back to earth like the streaming sparkler trails of fireworks.<br /><br />Worthy of some dedicated listening, this show and its sister on the next night (which, by the way, is equally represented at the hand of our intrepid taper) provide us with a cornucopia of pleasures drawn directly from the heart of a subtly magic time in the band's performance history.<br /><br /><a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=93827">10/09/82 AUD etree source info</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd1982-10-09.sonyecm220T.fixed.keshavan.miller.93827.sbeok.flac16">10/09/82 AUD Download</a><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/rwgw88BYURg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>11http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/07/1982-october-9-frost-amphitheatre.htmlUnder Eternity Blue - Classic Dub Reggaehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/siC2oz-p6AA/under-eternity-blue-classic-dub-reggae.htmlnon-Deadicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:30:55 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-7647930425520532579<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TBNq-BUkl_I/AAAAAAAABiM/UszfB5ObsIQ/s1600/UEB-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" qu="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TBNq-BUkl_I/AAAAAAAABiM/UszfB5ObsIQ/s200/UEB-logo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The tenth installment of the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> radio program hits the Internet airwaves this weekend on <a href="http://www.spfradio.yage.net/">Spirit Plants Radio</a> with three show times: Saturday, June 12 at 7pm PST, and Sunday, June 13 at 5am and 2pm PST.<br /><div><br />In this episode we return to Dub Reggae, this time directly into the heart of the 70's when dub was fully coming of age and pushing the borders of&nbsp;anything one normally expected out of Reggae music in general.&nbsp;&nbsp;Focused on the years 1973 - 1975, we will enjoy music that is as much raw and organic as it is psychedelically produced and often cutting edge for its time. The sound of these years epitomizes what goes down in the record books as Classic Dub.&nbsp; No doubt, a good time for your ears awaits.<br /><br />After this weekend's airings, this episode will be added to the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue podcast series</a> and if you are subscribed, you will find this broadcast appearing as a new podcast download then. Information for subscribing can be found at the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue Music</a> site itself.</div><br /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369547574036029666" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/SoR3Ecr6YOI/AAAAAAAABYs/wfhjreHeSmE/s200/spfradiobanner.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 93px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 200px;" /><br /><br /><center><a href="http://spfradio.yage.net/">http://spfradio.yage.net/</a><br /><a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> with DJ Arkstar<br />Saturday, June 12: 7pm PST<br />Sunday, June 13 at 5am and 2pm PST</center><br /><div>The full weekend line up (11am PST Saturday - 11pm PST Sunday) is listed on the Spirit Plants Radio page above.</div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/siC2oz-p6AA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/06/under-eternity-blue-classic-dub-reggae.htmlHelping Hands For Helping Handshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/dPMYl79WMzY/helping-hands-for-helping-hands.htmlfacebooktrading communityicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:15:51 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-5751143114666379095<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TAm6CMqEg2I/AAAAAAAABh0/QlEiZBhBmMU/s1600/stealie_charity3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TAm6CMqEg2I/AAAAAAAABh0/QlEiZBhBmMU/s200/stealie_charity3.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><br /><br /><center><b>HELPING HANDS DRIVE</b></center><br /><div>The Grateful Dead Listening Guide is excited to announce that we have launched our Facebook fan page sharing campaign which matches Facebook friends, Facebook technology and a charitable donation to a worthy cause.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Today we start our “contest.” <b>If we can drive the total fan count of the GDLG Facebook fan page to 5000 “likes” by June 30th, a very generous donation will be made to the <a href="http://www.rexfoundation.org/">Rex Foundation</a> on behalf of the Grateful Dead Listening Guide and all of its fans.</b></div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://www.snreach.com/">SN-Reach</a>, a technology/marketing company based in northern California, has asked the Grateful Dead Listening Guide to help beta test their new Facebook sharing application. Since deadheads epitomize “community,” we represent a perfect audience to help measure the effectiveness of their technology.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TAm8ca1ndHI/AAAAAAAABiE/s38Em0m2lHM/s1600/rex_logo1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="114" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TAm8ca1ndHI/AAAAAAAABiE/s38Em0m2lHM/s200/rex_logo1.png" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">To inspire the use of their Facebook app and in an effort to tie this exercise to something a bit more meaningful than simply gathering good data, SN-Reach is offering up a sizable donation to the Rex Foundation when we hit our goal. In the end, the GDLG can gain exposure to a wider audience, SN Reach can gain valuable insight into their application and a worthy cause will receive a monetary gift.</div><br /><strong>How it works:</strong><br />Helping is amazingly easy and takes next to no time at all. <b>You can show your support for the Guide and the charity by heading directly to this <a href="http://bit.ly/dCpRji">GDLG Sharing Page</a>, or clicking on the large "Like&nbsp;it? Share it!"&nbsp;button below.</b> There, after making sure that you “LIKE” the GDLG fan page yourself, you can use the handy “SHARE” button under the main message to get the word out to your Facebook friends who you think might help us hit the 5000 fan goal.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://bit.ly/dCpRji" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" gu="true" height="84" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/TAm617U1o9I/AAAAAAAABh8/97XYr5WXN1o/s320/GDLG-Helping_Hands_Skull_Lisi_Button_facebook_blue.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Thanks in advance for your help and your time.<br /><br />--The Grateful Dead Listening Guide<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/dPMYl79WMzY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>1http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/06/helping-hands-for-helping-hands.html1980 May 10 - Hartford, CThttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/A97UoDAAjA4/1980-may-10-hartford-ct.html1980AUDsEarly '80'sIndooricepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Wed, 19 May 2010 08:39:38 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-6358490409710011205<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><img alt="Grateful Dead 8/27/80 Pine Knob" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472990772949218290" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S_P4HGCg8_I/AAAAAAAABhU/_G_PhgqOO1Y/s320/1980-08-272PineKnob.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></div></div><div><br /><center style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">GRATEFUL DEAD<br />Saturday, May 10, 1980<br />Hartford Civic Center – Hartford, CT<br />Audience Recording</center><br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">As has often been pointed out here on the Grateful Dead Listening Guide, there is something extra special about discovering a wonderful show that may have hitherto evaded your radar. In fact, for many, entire years might fit this description, and 1980 is typically one of those years.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div>So here for your pleasure is one such show. Things are so good on 05/10/80 that when it's all said and done you might very well find yourself saying, "Where has this show been all my life?"<br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>Set 1: New Minglewood Blues, Peggy-O, Mexicali Blues&nbsp;&gt; El Paso, Althea, Passenger, Far From Me, Lost Sailor&nbsp;&gt; Saint Of Circumstance&nbsp;&gt; Deal</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em>Set 2: China Cat Sunflower&nbsp;&gt; I Know You Rider, Feel Like A Stranger&nbsp;&gt; Comes A Time&nbsp;&gt; Estimated Prophet&nbsp;&gt; He's Gone&nbsp;&gt; Uncle John's Band&nbsp;&gt; Drums&nbsp;&gt; Space&nbsp;&gt; Not Fade Away&nbsp;&gt; Sugar Magnolia E: Alabama Getaway&nbsp;&gt; One More Saturday Night</em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S_P5aOElN_I/AAAAAAAABhk/7gVSmlm7Atw/s1600/1980-10-25_2198_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S_P5aOElN_I/AAAAAAAABhk/7gVSmlm7Atw/s200/1980-10-25_2198_thumb.jpg" width="133" wt="true" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S_P4lBeXrxI/AAAAAAAABhc/gr442_zqjnw/s1600/1980-10-25_2198_thumb.jpg"></a>This show has the sense of bursting energy about it. The band seems intent on pushing itself beyond the norm, and nowhere is this more evident than in the meat of the second set. Given the uniqueness of song pairings on this night, it's almost a crime to know the set list before you listen to this show as it kills the surprises. But this seems somewhat unavoidable here thirty years later.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div>After a China&gt;Rider that finds Garcia absolutely peaking through one blistering run after another with giant spinning and spiraling wheels of starlight, the stage is set for what is already hinting at being a special evening. What follows not only contains some amazing music, but also presents us with several song transitions that never happened before, nor ever would after.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div>A snaky Stranger finds its exit jam turned on its head by Jerry as he slowly brings us over to Comes A Time. The transition seems to extend forever as Phil continues to return to Stranger while the rest of the band follows Garcia's migration. It's been over a year (and over 70 shows) since the last Comes A Time was played. That, coupled with coming out of Feel Like A Stranger for the first and only time, serves to thrill the audience completely.<br /><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This first post-Keith and Donna era Comes A Time floats its way out on delicate wings that allow the spaces between the music to swell with emotion. We've found a secret garden hidden behind hills where we can become one with a tender tranquility. And out of this garden we enter Estimated Prophet (never before or after to be found coming out of Comes A Time).</div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This Estimated succeeds in transgressing the laws of time and space as it defies any ability to be called solely a product of 1980. The jam is awash with great swells and syncopated rhythms that coil like rising smoke in still air. The slippery edges of slow motion water over river rocks eventually recede leaving us in He's Gone.</div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S_P_IAHH0yI/AAAAAAAABhs/SjSAOv9V3pU/s1600/bears_four_diamond.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="169" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S_P_IAHH0yI/AAAAAAAABhs/SjSAOv9V3pU/s200/bears_four_diamond.jpg" width="200" wt="true" /></a>The entirety of He's Gone feels born out of the same secret spaces discovered in Comes A Time. As we pass into the end portion of the song we are again treated to a dose of music that has a tactile presence to its silences. Everything visible and invisible combines to take us further out of ourselves. This slowly grows in intensity as cosmic winds and jet streams rise around us. Then the music settles, and given our location in the show we can't help but expect to head directly into Drums from here. This is not to be.</div><br />The transition into Uncle John's Band captures the quintessential perfection that was Grateful Dead improvisation. Again never seen before or after, heading from He's Gone into UJB is like icing on some magical musical cake. There is no escaping the energy that pours from the band to the crowd and directly off the tape. We are firmly in our sacred space with the band. There is no desire to be anywhere else. "Where does the time go," indeed. The music begins to eclipse itself as the jamming unfolds. Decidedly proving that there is no reason what-so-ever to discount years or decades that came after the Dead's "golden era," this jam is riveting. The song itself eventually falls away and the band continues to coax magic from thin air prolonging the approach of the moment when the drummers finally take over.<br /><br />The post Drums/Space portion of the show is intensely rockin' right to the final notes of the two song encore. The band certainly was in no mood to hold back. When it was all done, the music played for nearly 3 full hours.<br /><br /><a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=100402">05/10/80 AUD etree source info</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd1980-05-10.nak700.wise.miller.100402.flac16">05/10/80 AUD Download</a> </div></div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/A97UoDAAjA4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>6http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/05/1980-may-10-hartford-ct.htmlUEB-009 - Psychedelic Journaling [part 02]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/MZXqL6y7icM/ueb-009-psychedelic-journaling-part-02.htmlnon-Deadicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:32:41 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-9056718151462790532<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S8mqCR2hhHI/AAAAAAAABhM/HUuZIzP1Oso/s1600/UEB-logo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461082979291989106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S8mqCR2hhHI/AAAAAAAABhM/HUuZIzP1Oso/s200/UEB-logo.jpg" border="0" /></a> <center><a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/2010/04/ueb-009-psychedelic-journaling-part-02.html"><strong>UEB-009 - Psychedelic Journaling [part 02]<br /></strong></a></center><br />After getting a significant degree of positive response and feedback on the recent Psychedelic Journaling motif being explored over at Under Eternity Blue, I have gone ahead and spun out a second installment for your listening pleasure.<br /><br />It's healthy to step outside of the Grateful Dead universe from time to time. Occasionally you might bump into other psychedelic physical laws governing foreign landscapes and solar systems, and these might come expand what you consider to be existing in your own personal musical sphere.<br /><br />At <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> I encourage the cultivation of your adventurism and appreciation of music's inner voice as it expresses itself in many forms.<br /><br />Stop by and enjoy the ride.<div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/MZXqL6y7icM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/04/ueb-009-psychedelic-journaling-part-02.html1971 December 15 - Ann Arborhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/O52K62Wb4Yo/1971-december-15-ann-arbor.html1971Early '70'sIndoormusical satoriSBDsthematic undercurrentsicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:03:01 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-80743671342409146<div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S73fIGTJIGI/AAAAAAAABg0/GyF5Xogh5Vc/s1600/19710815_1931.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457763653665759330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 254px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Bob Weir August 15, 1971" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S73fIGTJIGI/AAAAAAAABg0/GyF5Xogh5Vc/s320/19710815_1931.jpg" border="0" /></a> <center>GRATEFUL DEAD<br />Wednesday, December 15th, 1971<br />Hill Auditorium – Ann Arbor, MI<br />Soundboard Recording</center><br />When taking a broad stroke look at 1971 and 1972 one generally sees some stark differences. Jumping from a late April 71 show to one from the same time of the year in 1972 reveals a band that seems to have evolved far more than twelve months might allow.<br /><br />A pivotal shift occurred in October 1971 when Keith Godchaux was added to the lineup, reshaping the band's rhythm section and inspiring play at all levels. Keith quickly fit right in, and as 1971 neared its close, the beast we would come to fully face in 1972 was already starting to take form. December 1971 shows have the distinct sound of metamorphosis to them.<br /><br />The show on December 15th, 1971 beautifully showcases this transition for us, and contains a Dark Star that exceeds the relative obscurity of its reputation.<br /><br /><em>Set 1: Bertha, Me &amp; Bobby McGee, Mr. Charlie, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Beat It On Down The Line, It Hurts Me Too, Cumberland Blues, Jack Straw, You Win Again, Run Rudolph Run, Playin' In The Band, Brown Eyed Women, Mexicali Blues, Big Railroad Blues, Brokedown Palace, El Paso, Casey Jones<br />Set 2: Dark Star > Deal, Sugar Magnolia, Turn On Your Lovelight > King Bee > I'm A Man > Turn On Your Lovelight, E: One More Saturday Night<br /></em><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S73fgIZb4MI/AAAAAAAABg8/St3BhFms0Cc/s1600/19711019_0593.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457764066545885378" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 158px" alt="Keith Godchaux 1971" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S73fgIZb4MI/AAAAAAAABg8/St3BhFms0Cc/s200/19711019_0593.jpg" border="0" /></a>The first set is packed to the rafters with classic 1971 Grateful Dead energy. Then, tucked right in the middle, a six and a half minute rendition of Playin' In The Band captures the dawning of what would eventually arrive in the months ahead. The song's jamming sees the band exploring a distinctly new direction. It's as if the band intends Playin' to stay in the format of a single, but the song's "Main Ten" thematic undercurrent will no longer be denied. The blossoming of this undercurrent is ripe with a sense of new territory for the band's improvisational talents. It really feels like the song could go on for 20 minutes but is reeled in only because the band thinks that's what is supposed to happen.<br /><br />But it's the set two opening Dark Star which deserves most of our attention. It begins in a familiar sea of gentle bobbing and floating on tiny fractal waves. A caressing of melodic lines dance and twirl effortlessly, like a symphony of leaves falling from a tree. Soon the tempo drops away and a vast plain opens up where random coils of music fill spaces separated by compelling emptiness. The mood goes introspective, as dusk and moonlight pervade the scene before us. Quietly a storm brews, and sinister blood-red fire (so indicative of 1971) flashes and distorts our surroundings into a frenzy approaching madness.<br /><br />But there is something more happening here. Clearly the addition of Keith to the lineup has triggered the sprouting of the powers which would find complete release in 1972 itself. The band's ability to intricately intermingle this dark and dangerous energy with their hallmark sense of triumphant, joyful expression is breathtaking here. It produces a complexity and wildness that goes beyond their already well developed psychedelic jamming style. We feel our hearts swell, while at the same time the fear of being lost to the fire never fully abates. These two extremes cycloning together encapsulate much of what the future state of the Grateful Dead would sound like. From some familiar corner of our awareness, Dark Star returns and the first verse is sung.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S73f89texfI/AAAAAAAABhE/w8jGVLqf8iI/s1600/19711026_2187.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457764561893377522" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 155px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="Jerry Garcia October 26, 1971" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S73f89texfI/AAAAAAAABhE/w8jGVLqf8iI/s200/19711026_2187.jpg" border="0" /></a>Afterwards, the music deconstructs more perfectly than could be hoped. Sound trickles down to a murmur leaving an immeasurable expanse of physical space around us, much like we had visited a thousand years earlier in the song. The dark brooding toys with the joyful again, and infinitely intricate ripples of sound dance in cosmic unison. From within this space a slow jam is born. Bobby finds a chord progression that is part Spanish Jam, part Weather Report Suite Prelude, and the entire band picks it up with him.<br /><br />Garcia proceeds to roll out solos that soar with impossible grace and fire, somehow encompassing that amazing balance of light and dark we've been experiencing this whole time. In many ways this displays the elemental muse jam which expressed itself through the band so often in 1972. There is more discovery here; more willingness to experiment rather than ride the wave. And this willingness to push sends the band to higher and higher levels of musical creativity. Eventually we are completely swept out of any ability to hold ourselves separate from the music around us. Reaching for rapturous heights, the music pierces the soul and fills the universe all at once.<br /><br />I'll admit, the abrupt segue into Deal is not welcome what-so-ever. Yet, by bringing the real world crashing back into view, it provides a certain rush of adrenaline. Almost instantaneously we are strutting with the band as they deliver the song with a certain bluesy guts that is infectious. Deal ends, and we feel almost lost in the silence afterward; a vacuum completely devoid of musical adventuring.<br /><br />The show charges along bringing Pigpen into the spotlight with a Lovelight > King Bee > I'm A Man > Lovelight. Tasty transitions weave a very unique Lovelight sandwich. This set closer, and the well crafted and delivered first set, serve to bookend a truly exceptional Dark Star that might more often get overlooked when one goes hunting for magical moments in the history of Grateful Dead recordings. Don't miss it.<br /><br /><a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=97718">12/15/71 SBD etree source info</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd1971-12-15.sbd.miller.97718.sbeok.flac16">12/15/71 SBD Stream</a> </div></div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/O52K62Wb4Yo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>3http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/04/1971-december-15-ann-arbor.htmlUnder Eternity Blue - Psychedelic Journaling [part 01]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/DAL_zM4CkL8/under-eternity-blue-psychedelic.htmlnon-Deadicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:37:33 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-3219966428350257019<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/SoR2sKHtYLI/AAAAAAAABYk/nz6CpQmdwkE/s1600-h/UEB-logo.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369547156735484082" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/SoR2sKHtYLI/AAAAAAAABYk/nz6CpQmdwkE/s320/UEB-logo.jpg" /></a> <div>The eighth installment of the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> radio program hits the Internet airwaves this weekend on Spirit Plants Radio with two show times: Saturday, March 27th at 8pm PST, and Sunday, March 28th at 8am PST.<br /><br />This episode is part one of a series entitled "Psychedelic Journaling." A bit different the previous episodes that focused on particular musical genres, Psychedelic Journaling is more of a sketch pad/diary approach to exploring a wide mix of music that strikes a psychedelic chord throughout. Diverse worlds are traveled, yet all represent an interconnected universe of intent. </div><div><br />After this weekend's airings, this episode will be added to the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue podcast series</a> and if you are subscribed, you will find this broadcast appearing as a new podcast download then. Information for subscribing can be found at the <a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue Music</a> site itself.</div><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 93px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369547574036029666" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/SoR3Ecr6YOI/AAAAAAAABYs/wfhjreHeSmE/s200/spfradiobanner.jpg" /> <center><a href="http://spfradio.yage.net/">Spirit Plants Radio</a><br /><a href="http://www.undereternitybluemusic.com/">Under Eternity Blue</a> with DJ Arkstar<br />Saturday, March 27th at 8pm PST<br />Sunday, March 28th at 8am PST</center><br /><div>The full weekend line up (11am PST Saturday - 11pm PST Sunday) is listed at the Spirit Plants Radio page linked above.</div><div class="feedflare">
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</div><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~4/DAL_zM4CkL8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0http://www.deadlistening.com/2010/03/under-eternity-blue-psychedelic.html1977 May 9 - Buffalo, NYhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/ysuSwLLbLxU/1977-may-9-buffalo-ny.html1977AUDsIndoorLate '70'sSBDsicepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:53:12 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-3508813741182345818<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S6jF-TFE85I/AAAAAAAABgc/sGKsDJ_tBlw/s1600-h/1977-Garcia.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451825022996116370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 194px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Jerry Garcia early 1977" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S6jF-TFE85I/AAAAAAAABgc/sGKsDJ_tBlw/s320/1977-Garcia.jpg" border="0" /></a> <center>GRATEFUL DEAD<br />Monday, May 9th, 1977<br />War Memorial Auditorium - Buffalo, New York<br />Audience &amp; Soundboard Recordings</center><br />Immediately after what would later become arguably their most famous show of all time, the Grateful Dead just rolled right along. On the very next night they were simply playing the next stop on the Spring 77 tour in Buffalo, New York. For them, the events of <a href="http://www.deadlistening.com/2008/10/1977-may-8-cornell-university.html">the previous night</a> were very likely to have passed relatively unnoticed. It was just what happened yesterday. A good show, no doubt. But the earth didn't shift on its axis. That said, when you go back and review the musical events of that May 1977 tour, you can appreciate that the band had set its own bar pretty high in early 77 and was coasting completely in the zone at this time. What felt commonplace in the moment clearly became the stuff of legends as the years wore on.<br /><br /><em>Set 1: Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Cassidy, Brown Eyed Women, Mexicali Blues, Tennessee Jed, Big River, Peggy-O, Sunrise, The Music Never Stopped<br />Set 2: Bertha, Good Lovin', Ship of Fools, Estimated Prophet > The Other One > Drums > Not Fade Away > Comes A Time > Sugar Magnolia E: Uncle John's Band</em><br /><br />This show opens up with a Help>Slip>Frank that is spun directly from the cloth of the night before. And it's almost no wonder that something like this is what comes directly out of the gate the night after Barton Hall. It's as if the massive energy of the previous night's second set needed further release. It finds it in spades here.<br /><br />Slipknot comes on like a surging thunderstorm hurdling towards us over a mountain range in the distance. For a time, the music is awash in hazy, cloudy mist. Slowly elements and energy begin to take form and before long potent eruptions and gales lash at us from every direction. The show is getting off to one of those starts where you feel we may have dropped into the start of the second set rather than the first. Things are just too intense. The music approaches its climax as great fists of power knock us off balance. Eventually the band gels into the song's head again and they smolder through the structured final section. We are dropped directly into a Franklin's Tower that is about to nearly lay waste to everything that just came before it.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S6jGjIFkQ1I/AAAAAAAABgk/FrWVI66PME8/s1600-h/19770320_1790.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451825655700538194" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 157px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="Bill Kreutzmann - March 20, 1977" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S6jGjIFkQ1I/AAAAAAAABgk/FrWVI66PME8/s200/19770320_1790.jpg" border="0" /></a>It is in Franklin's that we find that effervescent full dimension of the Grateful Dead appearing. And leading the charge is Mr. Jerome Garcia, as on fire as he ever was in 1977. As you will have already noticed, the audience recording featured here is quite fine. We feel the hall, but are up front enough to experience the vocals in extreme clarity. It's a perfect setting for a musical experience of the highest order.<br /><br />Garcia proceeds to blow lyrics in nearly every verse. And somehow, as deadheads are often ones to notice, these slip-ups seem to propel Jerry's soloing into the stratosphere. He is crisp, he is clean, and the band is in lock step behind him. And Keith is playing the organ instead of piano here – a truly rare and amazingly satisfying treat to be sure. It takes a verse or two, but eventually Garcia and the boys stretch out into an inferno of classic Grateful Dead rock. The performance engraves itself in the book of 1977, and you can feel every nuisance from each musician. The music is palpably loud, streaming out and over your head. It's exploding sunshine into a sea of joy beyond measure as Jerry continues to climb and climb. He approaches shredding without giving in, and the entire band is catapulted into the sky. Amazingly the show has only just begun.<br /><br />The rest of the set continues as textbook 1977. There's no mistaking that certain blend of energy and enjoyment that the band was emitting at this time. Because of this, much of the set is dappled with highlights. One worth calling to your attention is Big River. I've said it before, Big River may be one of the most overlooked tunes in the entire songbook of the Grateful Dead. Jerry must have looked forward to this song more than most as he would almost always lay down solos that went beyond expectation. This night is no exception, and deserves a good listen. By the time he goes around for the third and fourth laps in his last solo, Jerry has fire flying out of every pore of his being.<br /><br />The first set closes with The Music Never Stopped. Friends, there is little I can do to suitably set the stage. Accolades are rightly lofted upon this version by many a tape collector. The crescendo is so fierce that you can't help but marvel at what it was like to be there with the band back in 1977; to be in the presence of something so ferocious. And it also goes a long way to supporting the fact that the night before isn't so much more special or unique. Considering all the songs at the Dead's fingertips, it took far more than one night to allow them to express them all. Tonight, on May 9th, we are clearly experiencing an extension of the previous night. It's just one long ride in May 77. Enjoy.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S6jHYhLw_SI/AAAAAAAABgs/DjI7lgAjStg/s1600-h/1977-Jerry+Ponytail.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451826572970491170" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 158px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="Jerry Garcia 1977" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S6jHYhLw_SI/AAAAAAAABgs/DjI7lgAjStg/s200/1977-Jerry+Ponytail.jpg" border="0" /></a>Second set highlights do not fail to match the fireworks of the first. Estimated Prophet coils out with snaky and mysterious tendrils. They curve and caress their way through the crowd painting a rich watercolor of stained glass rivers. These waters seep into everything, infusing the experience with the psychedelic unknown – like tipping over a precipice that leads into a great sea of kaleidoscoping fog. After spinning entirely away from Estimated, a subtle jam finds itself launching an Other One that packs infinite intricacy and detail. There are endless featherings of reflection and echoing tremors that peel off of every corner of the music. These rushing rapids send our hearts spinning, completely at a loss to find solid ground. We come out in a wide open terrain where Drums impossibly liquefies the earth beneath us.<br /><br />This transitions into Not Fade Away and again the music comes to tower over us, performing an endlessly intricate weaving of streaming lights and textures. There's too much music to be coming out of just one band here. Everything is playing off of everything else, and the occasionally whispered reminders of Not Fade Away come and go, teasing us with a knowing smile. Then a segue born upon night mist leads us into Comes A Time.<br /><br />The juxtaposition of Comes A Time against everything that preceded it demonstrates yet another layer of the Grateful Dead's magic. We are in church again, at complete peace. Every cell of every body sings this prayer together. It's as if we've known it our entire lives. The connections between audience and band are unmistakable, and we expand into another moment that we both wish would never end and goes on forever at the same time.<br /><br />Comes A Time jams. There is nothing quite comparable to the exit jam section of Comes A Time in 1976-1977. They are a breed unto themselves. Here on 5/9/77 we are spun out into such gorgeous emotional expression that one can barely hold back tears. Things become indescribably beautiful. These are the moments that define the love many of us have for this band.<br /><br />Sugar Magnolia ends the set with a bang, and then we get treated to an Uncle John's Band encore that closes the evening right back in the happiest of places. We glow with the music. We sing with the band. They proceed to stoke the wild fire embers again as they let the song's 7/8 section blossom into rainbow moons and cascading stars. 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Grateful,Dead,Jerry,Garcia,Music,Psychedelic,Rock,Bootlegshttp://www.deadlistening.com/2010/02/gdlg-009-leaf-of-all-colors.htmlhttp://66.147.240.192/~noahwein/gdlg/podcasts/GDLG-009.mp31973 May 20 - Santa Barbara, CAhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GratefulDeadListeningGuide/~3/-FjEBjidlN8/1973-may-20-santa-barbara-ca.html1973Audience Devotional TreeAUDsMid '70'smusical satoriOutdooricepetal@gmail.com (www.deadlistening.com)Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:31:40 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-387936856129721233.post-7131187929289653396<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S3l79wxwErI/AAAAAAAABfk/J9xJy3-ZLms/s1600-h/1973-05-20-Dead1_by_Michael_Parrish.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438514326022394546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 210px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="Grateful Dead 05/20/73 by Michael Parish" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S3l79wxwErI/AAAAAAAABfk/J9xJy3-ZLms/s320/1973-05-20-Dead1_by_Michael_Parrish.JPG" border="0" /></a> <center>GRATEFUL DEAD<br />Sunday, May 20, 1973<br />Campus Stadium, U.C.S.B. – Santa Barbara, CA<br />Audience &amp; Soundboard Recordings</center><br />If you've been reading these pages for a long while, here's confirmation that new riches can forever be discovered in the Grateful Dead's concert history. A personal favorite, we come to this performance after two years of reviewing other shows before it. Yet the magic within this concert could rightfully have placed its review among the first handful added to the site.<br /><br />Through the luck of timing and good trading partners I was able to feature this recording as the very first round of my <a href="http://www.deadlistening.com/2008/05/audience-devotional-tree.html">Audience Devotional Tree</a>. In this day of not having to hunt down lists and strike up relationships to acquire new tapes, it is difficult to convey the excitement and power associated with being able to turn on an enormous crowd of traders to a previously un-circulating gem. But such was most certainly the case when I had the pleasure of digitally seeding out this tape back in 2000. Historically through the tape trading ages, there were always a few armfuls of dates which could cause most any trader's eyes to go wide. Bumping into a known low-gen, complete audience tape upgrade of 05/20/73 was indeed one of them.<br /><br /><em>Set 1: Bertha, Me &amp; My Uncle, Box Of Rain, Deal, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, The Race Is On, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Beat It On Down The Line, They Love Each other, Playin' In The Band<br />Set 2: Promised land, Brown Eyed Women, Mexicali Blues, Row Jimmy, Jack Straw, Big Railroad Blues, Greatest Story Every Told, Here Comes Sunshine, Big River, Loser, El Paso, Casey Jones<br />Set 3: Truckin' > Other One > Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue, Sugar Magnolia E: Johnny B. Goode</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S3l8Thc3MxI/AAAAAAAABfs/_zCo0jyDqHc/s1600-h/1973-05-20-Bob1_by_Michael_Parrish.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438514699865371410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="Bob Weir 05/20/73 by Michael Parrish" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S3l8Thc3MxI/AAAAAAAABfs/_zCo0jyDqHc/s200/1973-05-20-Bob1_by_Michael_Parrish.JPG" border="0" /></a>The show is an enormous three set monster in an outdoor stadium, packed full of classic 1973 fare. But things go wildly off the charts as the band moves from Truckin' into Nobody's Jam and beyond. Some sort of cosmic switch gets flipped, and the band takes off, pulling every living soul deeply into the secret spaces of their private musical muse.<br /><br />As the Nobody's Fault But Mine Jam falls away, a door opens into the purest of Grateful Dead improvisational exploration. The guitars begin to echo each other's little triplets and runs, like birds or coyotes conversing across miles of forest. This echoing casts the music into a slippery kaleidoscope of interweaving musical measures. In mere moments, the audience tape is defying all possibility of representing just some kid holding a microphone amidst a sea of concert-goers in an outdoor stadium. Every conceivable distraction is bleached away into a burning white backdrop leaving nothing but the steady flow of music to fill the ever expanding "now." It's as if some incomprehensibly intricate network of gears has finally slipped into sync setting free an experience that sears away all but our most inner attention. The music grows and turns, drawing this singular moment into one prolonged expression of joy.<br /><br />These are psychedelic winds. Banners furling, catching sunlight, reflecting raindrops. Colors pooling, intermixing, turning infinite hues beyond count. The jam that has opened up here is fully immersed in the richness of the Grateful Dead's truest expression. The cadence and the loping lazy jazzy journeying are singularly the Dead's. It's been a long show, and they have finally made it to their own desired destination. They let this music play itself. It expands and contracts causing the ground and sky around us the breath peacefully.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S3l_pBAHgaI/AAAAAAAABf0/JRBY5XCBHJ8/s1600-h/1973-05-20-Jerry-Billy_by_Michael_Parrish.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438518367646876066" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="Jerry Garcia 05/20/73 by Michael Parrish" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S3l_pBAHgaI/AAAAAAAABf0/JRBY5XCBHJ8/s200/1973-05-20-Jerry-Billy_by_Michael_Parrish.JPG" border="0" /></a>It's late May 1973, and if you trace the musical undercurrents that evolved over the 30 year history of the band, you can actually pick out the binding ties between the purest improvisational moments from the Fall of '72 and what we would hear fully develop into the jazzy 1973 playing style that came in late June ‘73 and beyond. In this jamming the convergence produces an utter uniqueness which sweeps us away in an uplifting joyfulness tinged deeply with psychedelic feedom. This is one of the finest 8 minutes to come out of 1973 altogether. It's impossible for you not to close your eyes and smile as Bobby strums sunbeams, Jerry whips out licks that spiral like wisps of perfumed incense, Phil bounds down a hill like a big bear, and Keith fills all the empty spaces perfectly.<br /><br />Tell tale hints of Other One precede a short drum break. The crowd around us reappears, as if coming up for air. At the end of Drums, in the split second before Other One explodes, we are treated to one of those "audience tape only" moments where someone shouts out something so nicely timed that it catapults the pleasure of the musical experience even higher. A guy calls out "Hey man!" and over him the Other One tidal wave explodes, impossibly huge. We are immediately locked directly back into the glowing furnace of musical purity. It's such a great one of those audience moments that I even made sure to set the track ID a half second early to be sure to start the Other One track with this guy's call out.<br /><br />Surging along with its full force gale, Other One thunders to fill every empty cavity of time and space. Familiar rhythms sing to us, while the band stokes the fire. We burst into the first verse and it slingshots us out into a portion of music where all previous tethers to reality come undone. Jerry and Phil slowly disown the song's key signature as the count of measures is replaced by a gurgling slow motion sea. Outer space stories in languages beyond words come through the music as Billy's drumming falls completely away and the rest of the band dances as delicately as dew under starlight. The music keeps pushing further into this outer world. New passages appear bringing unknown landscapes and perspectives. Eventually, we slide into the "Tiger" meltdown and Garcia's guitar explodes into a fire hose torrent of broken glass. Physical reality is splintered infinitely in an onrush of fractaled mirroring wormholes.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S3l_5vO4-oI/AAAAAAAABf8/Wea5RqCr0Sw/s1600-h/1973-05-20-Phil1_by_Michael_Parrish.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438518654934776450" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 160px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="Phil Lesh 05/20/73 by Michael Parrish" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__MBlWvx9Cy8/S3l_5vO4-oI/AAAAAAAABf8/Wea5RqCr0Sw/s200/1973-05-20-Phil1_by_Michael_Parrish.JPG" border="0" /></a>And then, outdoing the jam before Other One, a passage emerges fueled by Bobby hammering out a percussive Caution-like strumming with Billy's intricate cymbal and snare work. Over this, Jerry begins hitting wide, gaping, primal bell-tone notes which stand as tall as dinosaurs. He adjusts his settings and his sound transforms into something more full of high and low end than can be imagined existing on this mono outdoor recording. Our being is elevated beyond recognition. He takes us so far away we might never find our way back. Phil is stomping broad strokes at impossible angles. Keith is ringing gorgeous bell tones of his own which he would do all too infrequently in the Summer of 73. The music pulses and pulls with unrecognizable sounds and details which defy knowing. The recording has somehow become immeasurably intimate. It seems to be born from the center of our soul more than off of some enormous scaffolding of stage in the distance in front of us. We are more music than anything else; more the Dead than the audience. This end portion jam is fleeting, yet it delivers an overflowing measure of the Grateful Dead's truest face; its heart of hearts. As is often the case, we are in a place absent of any desire to leave. The Eyes OF The World that follows is wonderful. Played at a cooled down tempo, it endlessly flows with rivers of sunshine.<br /><br />The classic 1973 fare that represents the rest of this show is peppered with some outstanding moments. China>Rider and Playin' are obvious tunes worth some listening. But even more than that, there are a few real stand outs in the second set. Big Railroad Blues and Greatest Story Every Told tower beyond any preconceived notion you might have of these tunes as mid-set filler. Both Weir and Garcia deliver knockout strength blows throughout. At the risk of now having over-hyped them for you, make a point of giving these your full attention. I return to them every once in a while when I want to be reminded of the versions that made me a big fan of these songs over all.<br /><br /><a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=5915">05/20/73 AUD etree source info</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd73-05-20.aud.weiner.gdADT.5915.sbefail.shnf">05/20/73 AUD Download</a><br /><br /><a href="http://db.etree.org/shninfo_detail.php?shnid=86905">05/20/73 SBD etree source info</a><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/gd1973-05-20.sbd.miller.86905.sbeok.flac16">05/20/73 SBD Stream Audio</a><br /><br /><em>05/20/73 photos by Michael Parrish</em><div class="feedflare">
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